The Payoff (1978 film)
1978 Italian film
- 17 March 1978 (1978-03-17)
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The Payoff (Italian: La mazzetta) is an Italian crime comedy film directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.[2]
Cast
- Nino Manfredi: Sasà Jovine
- Ugo Tognazzi: Commissioner Assenza
- Paolo Stoppa: Don Michele Miletti
- Marisa Laurito: Luisella
- Imma Piro: Giulia Miletti
- Gennaro Di Napoli: Nicola Casali
- Marisa Merlini: Elena, Michele's first wife
- Sal Borgese: Tonino
- Giovanni Borgese: Pasquale
- Benito Stefanelli: Improta
- Giacomo Furia: Antonio
- Nino Vingelli: Catelli
- Lilly Furia: Miss Catelli
- Pietro De Vico: Car parking-Caretaker
Sequel
Following the commercial success of the movie it was planned a movie-adaptation from the Veraldi's second novel based on the character of Sasà Jovine, L'uomo di conseguenza (1978), still directed by Sergio Corbucci and starred by Marcello Mastroianni in the role of Jovine. After a series of meetings Mastroianni declined: he was not enthusiast to resume a character already successfully performed by Nino Manfredi and the plot of the sequel involved incest, a scabrous subject he had treated the same year in the movie Stay As You Are. The production then decided to make him play a story with a tone more similar to La mazzetta but not based on any novel, Neapolitan Mystery.[3]
References
- ^ a b "La mazzetta (1978)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Lino Miccichè. Storia del cinema italiano, Vol.13. Edizioni di Bianco & nero, 2001. p. 273. ISBN 88-317-8537-0.
- ^ Matilde Hochkofler (2006). Marcello Mastroianni: il gioco del cinema. Gremese Editore, 2006. p. 129. ISBN 88-8440-447-9.
Further reading
Attilio Veraldi. La mazzetta. Rizzoli, 1976.
External links
- The Payoff at IMDb
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Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
- La peccatrice dell'isola
- Supreme Confession
- Who Hesitates Is Lost
- Duel of the Titans
- Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita
- Goliath and the Vampires
- The Two Marshals
- The Slave
- Lo smemorato di Collegno
- The Shortest Day
- The Monk of Monza
- Gli onorevoli
- Castle of Blood
- Grand Canyon Massacre
- Minnesota Clay
- I figli del leopardo
- The Man Who Laughs
- Django
- Ringo and His Golden Pistol
- Navajo Joe
- The Hellbenders
- Death on the Run
- The Mercenary
- The Great Silence
- The Specialists
- Compañeros
- Sonny and Jed
- What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution?
- The Beast
- The White, the Yellow, and the Black
- Di che segno sei?
- The Con Artists
- Mr. Robinson
- Ecco noi per esempio
- Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
- The Payoff
- Odds and Evens
- Neapolitan Mystery
- I'm Getting a Yacht
- I Don't Understand You Anymore
- Super Fuzz
- My Darling, My Dearest
- Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
- Count Tacchia
- Sing Sing
- Questo e Quello
- A tu per tu
- I Am an ESP
- Roba da ricchi
- Rimini Rimini
- Days of Inspector Ambrosio
- Women in Arms
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