Marisa Laurito Movies
- 1985
Not quite reaching the standards of its predecessor Thus Spake Bellavista, this turn at the fount of Prof. Bellavista's wisdom has him and his variously inept followers trying to track down a murderer. While using the Prof's telescope to watch Halley's comet, the Bellavista coterie focuses on what appears to be a murder in a nearby apartment. Though Sherlock Holmes would shudder at their investigative techniques, at least the city of Naples is shown to good advantage. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luciano de Crescenzo, Renato Scarpa, (more)
This entertaining, light comedy is carried on the shoulders of Nino Manfredi, who plays a gypsy coffee vendor illegally selling expresso on trains. Inventive, creative, and needing to stay several steps ahead of the conductors and other bureaucrats out to shut down his operation, the cafe artist often finds himself hiding out in the most unusual places. He needs the money because his young, asthmatic son needs medical attention. That fact casts no shadow on the comedy though, as the coffee vendor continues to dodge his pursuers toward what must surely be an upbeat ending for all concerned. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, (more)
- 1978
Nothing in his background has given Saso Iovine (Nino Manfredi) any preparation for the sticky situations he encounters when he is hired by the crooked building contractor Don Michele to find his daughter Giulia, and some important (and legally damaging) documents she stole from him before running off with her boyfriend. He immediately stumbles onto a nest of corpses and a Neapolitan crime rivalry while being pursued by the police and harassed by his half-loony girlfriend. Along the way, practically everyone involved in the case becomes a corpse for him to stumble over moments ahead of the police's arrival. He does, however, become somewhat friendly with the police commissioner Assenza (Ugo Tognazzi), which just barely suffices to keep his neck out of the noose. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, (more)
