Johnny Dorelli Movies

A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy. Despite the poor fellow's best efforts to fit in with his neighbors, he never quite seems to make it. Of course his tragedy is the audience's delight. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

The director of an Italian milk company, Alberto, lost his beautiful American wife after he caught her having a shower with the plumber. He is fixated on women's breasts, but so is his psychiatrist, who calls his obsession a nostalgia for the mother's breast. One of his psychiatrist's other patients is a woman who found her cellist husband playing musical sex games with the family maid. In a protracted series of meetings, the two patients grow acquainted, and love grows up between them. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Two opposite military camps, one Italian and one American, are positioned across from each other in Sicily, separated by a river and an ancient Roman bridge, the "Bridge of the Caesars." World War II has almost ended and so perhaps the fighting spirit has dwindled a little in the ordinary soldier. This would explain why each team of demolitionists -- Italian and American -- decide that the historically valuable bridge is worth saving at all costs. The American team is made up of a cowboy, a Native American specializing in smoke signals, a narcoleptic soldier, a Mafia hit man, and an architect. The Italian team is made up of a chamber-music quartet headed by an orchestra conductor and comprised of a lazy Roman, a Southern mobster, and an Alpine mountain climber, among others. The teams assume a proper bellicose stance when they first see each other, but then quickly collude to outwit their commanders and try to save the bridge. When the overzealous American commander is ready to destroy the bridge at all costs, the soldiers connive to bring in a bevy of women from a nearby house of ill-repute to keep the men too occupied to even remember the bridge. Failing any other plan, the leaders of each team then decide to convince the American commander that the war has actually ended, and so there is every reason to leave the bridge alone, in fact, just to leave, period. And if that plan does not work either, well, there must be something else they can do . . . ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

This undistinguished comedy in two acts features Lino Banfi as Altomare, the owner of an appliance store, who is obsessed with superstition, spells, and amulets to fight the "evil eye" that bedevils him, and Gaspare (Johnny Dorelli) a charlatan magician who through serendipity, encounters a real witch and is the happy recipient of her magic powers. Gaspare can retain those powers only on the condition that he bring her a pistachio ice cream when she asks for it. But even magic cannot do much for Altomare or Gaspare as long as they do not pay attention to the very practical, mundane matters in their lives. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

The two lead actors have little chance to overcome the stereotyped dialogue and action in this superficial tale about Emanuele (Johnny Dorelli) a free-wheeling, wealthy businessman fleeing from the law, and Gino (Paolo Villaggio) a poor, doltish cabbie driving him all over Europe. Emanuele has a suitcase full of documents that could convict several well-placed people of serious crimes if the papers were made public. He keeps them as he runs away from the police and tries to disguise himself as a female -- his "sister" -- who Gino romances. The ending is supposed to come as a surprise, but not many viewers are as blind as Gino, and both gender and fate are fairly obvious here. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this WW II comedy, a band of American soldiers are assigned to defend a bridge. They become terribly bored, so to amuse themselves they have all sorts of romantic adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi