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Directed by: Giorgio Simonelli
Script by: Giovanni Grimaldi
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 44’
Origin: Italy
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| Cast: Cast: Nino Taranto (the “Commissario”, the Commissioner or Inspector of police), Alberto Sordi (Alberto Tadini), Walter Chiari (Luigino Giovetti), Lucia Bosè (Stefania Giovetti), Riccardo Billi (bus1 driver), Mario Riva (bus2 driver), Carlo Dapporto (Antonio Badimenti), Lauretta Masiero (Mrs. Carracini). |
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A very busy day for an elderly Police inspector of Naples: a young quarrelling married couple, a young profiteer, a revue company robbed by the manager and so on.
Walter Annichiarico
2nd March 1924, 22nd December 1991
Born in Verona, he moves with his family to Milan where he starts to work and, at the same time, devotes himself to an intense sport activity (mainly boxing: in 1939, he becomes champion in the Lombardy championship in the featherweight class). In the same period, he begins to work at theatre: his first significant performance occurred in 1946 thanks to Marisa Maresca, who selects him for the play entitled “Se ti bacia Lola”: from this moment, the successful and frenetic career of this extraordinary Italian actor begins. Chiari is present in the revue genre (“Gildo”, 1950; “Sogno di un Walter”, 1951; “Tutto fa Broadway”, 1952; etc.), in the musical (“Buonanotte, Bettina”, 1956; “Un mandarino per Teo”, 1960, both directed by Garinei & Giovannini), in the comedy (“Luv” by M. Schisgal, 1965; “The Odd Couple” by N. Simon, 1966; “The Owl and the Pussycat” by B. Manoff, interpreted many times), as well as in TV (“La via del successo”, 1958; “Alta pressione”, 1962; “Canzonissima”, 1958 and 1968 editions): in the cinema, after making his debut in 1947 in “Vanità” by Giorgio Pàstina, he is an outstanding actor in “L’inafferrabile 12” (1950) directed by Mario Mattoli and proves to be talented in “Bellissima” (1951) directed by Luchino Visconti, “L’attico” (1962) by Gianni Puccini, “Il giovedì” (1963) by Dino Risi, “La rimpatriata” (1963) by Damiano Damiani, “Io, io, io... e gli altri” (1966) by Alessandro Blasetti, and in “Falstaff” (1966) by Orson Welles. During the Seventies, also due to private circumstances, his appearances become rare and deteriorate in quality. After his “swansong” in “Romance” (1986) directed by Massimo Mazzucco, there isn’t much to remember of him, expect for the beautiful and exhaustive TV biography which Tatti Sanguineti dedicates to him in 1986: “Storia di un altro italiano” is a sort of deeply affected “goodbye” to his idea of TV, by now disappeared, besides being a shy handing over of power by part of a great comic artist to the future generations.
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