The Payoff (Italian: La mazzetta) is an Italian crime comedy film directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.[2]
| The Payoff | |
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 Theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro | |
| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Written by | Attilio Veraldi Dino Maiuri Massimo De Rita Luciano De Crescenzo Elvio Porta |
| Starring | Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Paolo Stoppa |
| Cinematography | Luigi Kuveiller |
| Edited by | Amedeo Salfa[1] |
| Music by | Pino Daniele |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists Europa |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Cast
edit- Nino Manfredi: Sasà Jovine
- Ugo Tognazzi: Commissioner Assenza
- Paolo Stoppa: Don Michele Miletti
- Marisa Laurito: Luisella
- Imma Piro: Giulia Miletti
- Gennaro Di Napoli: Nicola Casali
- Marisa Merlini: Elena, Michele's first wife
- Sal Borgese: Tonino
- Giovanni Borgese: Pasquale
- Benito Stefanelli: Improta
- Giacomo Furia: Antonio
- Nino Vingelli: Catelli
- Lilly Furia: Miss Catelli
- Pietro De Vico: Car parking-Caretaker
Sequel
editFollowing 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 in the role of Jovine. After a series of meetings Mastroianni declined: he was not enthusiast to resume a character already successfully performed by Nino Manfredi and the plot of the sequel involved incest, a scabrous subject he had treated the same year in the movie Stay As You Are. 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.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "La mazzetta (1978)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Lino Miccichè. Storia del cinema italiano, Vol.13. Edizioni di Bianco & nero, 2001. p. 273. ISBN 88-317-8537-0.
- ^ Matilde Hochkofler (2006). Marcello Mastroianni: il gioco del cinema. Gremese Editore, 2006. p. 129. ISBN 88-8440-447-9.
Further reading
editAttilio Veraldi. La mazzetta. Rizzoli, 1976.
External links
edit- The Payoff at IMDb
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