Amedeo Sollazzo — Playwright (11)

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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest (1969)
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other title: Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione / L'année de la contestation …
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.

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The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World (1971)
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other title: I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo / I due della F.1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo …
Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.

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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army (1965)
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other title: Come inguaiammo l'esercito / How We Got into Trouble with the Army …
A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.

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Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop (1969)
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other title: Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia / Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia'
A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.

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Seduced and Duped (1964)
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other title: Sedotti e bidonati / Deux Corniauds en chasse
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?

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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows (1968)
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other title: Franco, Ciccio e le vedove allegre / Franco, Ciccio et les Veuves joyeuses
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.

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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas (1967)
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other title: Zwei Trottel gegen Django / Dos gringos en Texas …
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though.