The Payoff (1978 film)
| La mazzetta | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Produced by | Luigi De Laurentis, Aurelio De Laurentis |
| Starring | Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Paolo Stoppa |
| Music by | Pino Daniele |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | 13 April 1972 |
La mazzetta (also known as The Payoff) is is an Italian comedy-crime movie directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.[1]
Cast
- Nino Manfredi: Sasà Jovine
- Ugo Tognazzi: Commissario Assenza
- Paolo Stoppa: Don Michele Miletti
- Marisa Laurito: Luisella
- Imma Piro: Giulia Miletti
- Gennaro Di Napoli: Nicola Casali
- Marisa Merlini: Elena, prima moglie di Michele
- Sal Borgese: Tonino
- Giovanni Borgese: Pasquale
- Benito Stefanelli: Improta
- Giacomo Furia: Antonio, l'autista
- Lilly Furia: Signora Catelli
- Nino Vingelli: Catelli, guardia notturna
- Pietro De Vico: Guardiano posteggio auto
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 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.[2]
References
- ^ Lino Miccichè. Storia del cinema italiano, Vol.13. Edizioni di Bianco & nero, 2001. p. 273. ISBN 8831785370.
- ^ Matilde Hochkofler. Marcello Mastroianni: il gioco del cinema. Gremese Editore, 2006. p. 129. ISBN 8884404479.
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Further Readings
Attilio Veraldi, La mazzetta, Rizzoli, 1976
External links
- The Payoff at IMDb
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