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Vittorio Gassman
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Dino Risi, 1962; 105m For many, Vittorio Gassman's best-loved performance was as Bruno Cortona, the large-living, fast-talking huckster in Dino Risi's hilarious road movie. Bruno meets Roberto (an impossibly young Jean-Louis Trintignant), a shy student, and starts to give him a few lessons on the way of the world while taking him on an extended tour of the Roman countryside. Among the people they run across on their journey is Lily (Catherine Spaak, only 17 at the time), who seems capable of teaching both of them a thing or two. Risi brilliantly sends up both masculine swagger and the Italian economic miracle of the late 50s, with Gassman, as in so many of his best roles, projecting seemingly contradictory qualities - here, boastfulness and vulnerability - simultaneously.
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TAGS TO SEPARATE PARAGRAPHS --> Vittorio Gassman is a highly talented and versatile actor and "Let's Talk About Women" is further but unneeded proof. In addition to the amazing Gassman in nine different roles, the movie has enough good-looking women for a half-dozen major films.
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Among the great masters of commedia all'italiana, Dino Risi is the one with whom Vittorio Gassman had the closest and the most collaborative relationship. Ten years after IL SORPASSO Gassman plays another scintillating anti-hero of the Italian boom, a rich and vulgar real estate developer suspected of the murder of a prostitute by the upright and ultra-moralist judge Bonifazi (the marvelous Ugo Tognazzi). The mean-spirited, witty script by Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli anticipates in many ways the mani pulite scandals of the early 90s, with its exemplary protagonists and their moral ambiguity that seems to mirror that of the entire country. Gassman is at his best with a new character that you love to hate, ending up as a victim of a scary and absurd poetic justice.
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Synopsis: Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to find a ship that will take them to the Holy Land to reclaim the area for Christianity. The situation allows for plenty of sight gags and ribald humor. Catherine SpaakRead More
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Tall, handsome Vittorio Gassman stars as Peppe, the womanizing glass-jawed palooka who, along with several keystone criminals, stumblebum their way to...not much. Also featured in this comedy by Italian film legend Mario Monicelli are Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, who would go on to fame and fortune, but here have only modest parts. Mastroianni, who would later star in La Dolce Vita (1960), Il Bell'Antonio (1960), Divorzio all'italiana (1961) and many others, plays Tiberio a photographer without a camera, whose wife is in jail, who has a constantly crying baby to take care of with one of his arms up in a sling with a board under it. Cardinale, who would go on to become one of Italy's most famous beauty bombshells, plays Carmelina, a young woman locked up by her brother in order to protect her honor until she marries.
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Vittorio Gassman is excellent as Peppe, the prize fighter with a roving eye and glass jaw. Gassman brings equal parts larceny and charm to his role. Carlo Pisacane is the very funny, rag-tag, Cappanelle, the butt of everyone else’s superiority. Marcello Mastroianni brings his charm to the supporting role of the baby-sitting photographer and Toto supplies some comic delight as a "professor" of safe cracking.
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