I didn't much like this film when I first saw it ten or twelve years ago, but I was probably expecting a serious, fast-paced, violent Italian crime film as many of Tomas Milian's mid-70s films were. However this one emphasizes the comedy at least as much as the action, although it is still a successful package and the comedy/crime mixture works well. I haven't see all the later films (which ran well into the 1980's) with Milian as unconventional police inspector Nico Giraldi, but the one after this THE GANG THAT SOLD America, which also features a lot of US location shooting, does not work that well in my opinion and is full of dated pop culture references and unfunny humor. The first scene of LITTLE ITALY--as a dirty old man is looking through binoculars at a lady undressing...while his apartment is completely stripped clean by robbers only a few feet away from him!--sets the tone for the film. The plot, such as it is, takes Milian to New York and eventually to Las Vegas (and eventually to the gas chamber in Nevada in an outrageous climax!), and there's lots of great location footage of him walking along the old Vegas strip circa 1978. Eli Wallach appears (though his voice doesn't!) as a mafia don, in a role that didn't require much of this fine actor, but he plays comedy well and is good in the scenes involving his underlings, his red-haired wallflower oversexed daughter, and Milian (the scene in the Italian restaurant where Milian throws a pizza in the face of one of Wallach's underlings is classic!). Bombolo, who appears in a number of these later Nico Giraldi films, is a fine comic foil for Milian, and they have a good chemistry. I've yet to see the 1980's entries in this series (any kind soul out there with extra copies?), but in LITTLE ITALY the series still has some life in it, and Bruno Corbucci makes the mix of lowbrow Italian comedy and Italian police action work well. Not a classic, and action-oriented fans will be let down, but Milian fans will enjoy it.

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

1988 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano De Crescenzo

杰佩托是一个孤苦伶仃的老木匠，妻子去世后，他一直渴望能有一个儿子陪伴在自己身边。一天，杰佩托用从邻居那里借来的一段胡桃木作了一个木偶，谁知木偶却变成了一个小男孩，并声称自己的名字叫皮诺曹。自从有了皮诺曹这个儿子，杰佩托对他关爱备至，甚至变卖了唯一的御寒袄子给皮诺曹缝制了一身新衣服，并送他去上学。
然而，淘气的皮诺曹为了逃学竟随曼加波克的魔术团离家出走。离开家的日子里，皮诺曹经历了许多稀奇古怪的事情，也经历了各种危险。为此，把他变成小男孩的蓝仙女还两次把他变回了木偶。在经历了各种危险和挫折后，皮诺曹渐渐地懂得了父亲杰佩托的一片苦心。最终在掉进鲨鱼口中后，成功救出了早在出海寻找自己时就掉入鲨鱼腹中的爸爸杰佩托。

A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.