Vacation with a Gangster

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Vacation with a Gangster
Vacanzecolgangster.jpg
Directed by Dino Risi
Written byDino Risi
Ennio de Concini
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring Marc Lawrence
Giovanna Pala
Terence Hill
Cinematography Piero Portalupi
Edited by Franco Fraticelli
Music by Mario Nascimbene
Production
company
Mambretti Film
Distributed by Lux Film
Release date
  • 1951 (1951)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Vacation with a Gangster (Italian: Vacanze col gangster) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala and Terence Hill. [1]

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The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini.

Plot

A man sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Monteforte prison, while working on creating toys for children, puts a note in a papier-mâché horse in which he claims to have been unjustly imprisoned and appeals to anyone who reads the message to get him out of captivity.

The horse, after alternating events, is collected in pieces in the hands of five schoolmates, Gianni, Andrea, Mario, Ugo and Nino, who find the note written by the prisoner. They then plan an escape and plan to all be promoted to go on vacation to Monteforte.

Summer arrives, and the boys anonymously send a cake to the prisoner, the convict n. 5823 with a ticket but the prisoner is in the cell together with no. 6211, a dangerous criminal, with whom he shares the cake and who, unfortunately, also finds the ticket.

By chance or by fate, even the members of the clan of prisoner 6211 are about to implement an escape plan to free their partner and take advantage of it.

The beautiful singer Amelia is also part of the criminal company, who, once they meet the boys, makes them believe that the life prisoner is her brother, so that the boys hasten the escape plan, freeing the gangster Jack Menotti.

The boys hide the fugitive in an abandoned boat, but realize too late that they have been deceived. Fortunately, the police arrive and handcuff the criminal and, some time later, will put convict no. 5823 in freedom.

Production

Produced by Antonio Mambretti for the Mambretti Cinematographic Production, the film was shot in 1951 in Rome in the Titanus studios of the Farnesina. The film was released in theaters the following year.

The film sees the debut of Mario Girotti, then 12, then known as Terence Hill, in the role of Gianni, the orphan leader who pushes the team to the enterprise. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876055487.
  2. ↑ Marco Bertolino; Ettore Ridola (2002). Bud Spencer & Terence Hill.{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)


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