Search results
Claudia Cardinale makes a minor appearance in the film, playing a chaste Sicilian girl constrained by her overbearing brother, portrayed by Murgia. Cardinale would later achieve fame for her subsequent work.
Jul 11, 2014 · Ferribotte (Tiberio Murgia) is looking after his cloistered sister. Mario (Renato Salvatori), an orphan, is after maternal love. Capannelle (Carlo Pisacane) needs to satisfy his never-ending hunger. Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni) needs distraction from his fatherly duties while his wife is in prison.
- Federico Passi
Big Deal on Madonna Street: Directed by Mario Monicelli. With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossana Rory. A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Crime
- Mario Monicelli
- 1958-10-02
Jan 22, 2017 · This mood, however, is immediately undermined by the appearance of two old lags – one whose decrepit but ravenous toothlessness provides running gags throughout the film – and completely destroyed when the simple theft results in a blaring car alarm and the pathetic attempt of the codgers to outrun two policemen on bicycles.
- Darragh O’Donoghue
For Italian cinemagoers, Tiberio Murgia was the definitive screen Sicilian. Short and vain, possessive but priapic, his was a comic persona established brilliantly in Mario Monicelli’s masterpiece I soliti ignoti (1958), and then reprised in some 150 films over the next 40 years.
The film, released in Italy in 1958 as I Soliti ignoti, was a veritable treasure trove of cinematic influences, from Italian neorealism to Hollywood postwar film noir and its 1950s French cousin, all tied together in one neat 90-minute package.
People also ask
Who were the actors in 'I soliti ignoti'?
Is I soliti ignoti a neo-realist movie?
Are the characters in I soliti ignoti from Rome?
Who is the cloistered sister of Tiberio Murgia?
Jun 10, 2008 · Bumbling crooks Ferribotte, Capanelle and Mario (Tiberio Murgia, Carlo Pisacane, Renato Salvatori) pay a visit to photographer pal Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni), about their jailed pal who needs a stand-in, early in Mario Monicelli's Big Deal On Madonna Street, 1958.
