Little Funny Guy

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Little Funny Guy
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Directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile
Written by Massimo Franciosa
Castellano & Pipolo
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Starring Adriano Celentano
Claudia Mori
Lino Toffolo
CinematographyGastone Di Giovanni
Edited by Mario Morra
Music by Carlo Rustichelli
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

L'emigrante, internationally released as Little Funny Guy, is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. [1] [2]

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Plot

At the end of 1900s Saturnino Cavallo leaves his family to emigrate to America, in search of fortune, but his traces were lost. In Naples during the 1920s, his son Peppino Cavallo (Adriano Celentano), grown up, wakes up every night thinking of his father, with such insistence that he eventually decides to go look for him in America.

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References

  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
  2. Andrea Pergolari. Verso la commedia: momenti del cinema di Steno, Salce, Festa Campanile. Firenze libri, 2002.