La mazzetta is is an Italian comedy-crime

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 movie directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...

. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.

Cast

• Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....
  
  : Sasà Jovine
• Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
  
  : Commissioner Assenza
• Paolo Stoppa
  Paolo Stoppa
  Paolo Stoppa was an Italian actor and dubber.Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932...
  
  : Don Michele Miletti
• Marisa Laurito: Luisella
• Imma Piro: Giulia Miletti
• Gennaro Di Napoli: Nicola Casali
• Marisa Merlini
  Marisa Merlini
  Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...
  
  : Elena, Michele's first wife
• Sal Borgese
  Sal Borgese
  Sal Borgese, sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese, is a film actor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a stuntman and acrobat....
  
  : Tonino
• Giovanni Borgese: Pasquale
• Benito Stefanelli
  Benito Stefanelli
  Benito Stefanelli was an Italian film actor and stuntman who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991....
  
  : Improta
• Giacomo Furia
  Giacomo Furia
  Giacomo Furia is an Italian film actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1948 and 1998.He was born in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Assunta Spina * Totò cerca casa * Variety Lights...
  
  : Antonio
• Nino Vingelli: Catelli
• Lilly Furia: Miss Catelli
• Pietro De Vico
  Pietro De Vico
  Pietro De Vico was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991.He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy; he was married, from 1937 till his death , to actress Anna Campori....
  
  : Car parking-Caretaker

Sequel

Following the commercial success of the movie it was planned a movie-adaptation from the Veraldi's second novel based on the character of Sasà Jovine, L'uomo di conseguenza (1978), still directed by Sergio Corbucci and starred by Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

 in the role of Jovine. After a a series of meetings Mastroianni declined: he was not enthusiast to resume a character already successfully performed by Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi

Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....

 and the plot of the sequel involved incest, a scabrous subject he had treated the same year in the movie Stay As You Are

Stay as you are

Stay As You Are is a 1978 erotic-drama film, directed by Alberto Lattuada, starring Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara De Rossi and Ania Pieroni. It is also known as Stay The Way You Are in some countries....

. The production then decided to make him play a story with a tone more similar to La mazzetta but not based on any novel, Neapolitan Mystery

Neapolitan Mystery

-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Raffaele Capece* Ornella Muti - Lucia Navarro* Renato Pozzetto - Police Inspector* Michel Piccoli - Conductor Navarro* Zeudi Araya - Elizabeth* Capucine - Sister Angela* Peppino De Filippo - Raffaele's father...

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