Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 123movies

Watch: I soliti ignoti 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Caught red-handed for a crime he swears he didn’t commit, hopeful criminal mastermind and–for now–small-time thief Cosimo entrusts square-jawed boxer Peppe with the plan for a seemingly fail-proof pawnshop heist on quiet Madonna Street. However, as the news of this lucrative job spreads like wildfire, instead, it’s Cosimo’s band of maladroit petty criminals–including a destitute photographer with fatherly obligations–who will take action for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Will things work as planned?.
Plot: Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they’re not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he’s finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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Madcap petty criminal hijinks in postwar Italy
Tall, handsome Vittorio Gassman stars as Peppe, the womanizing glass-jawed palooka who, along with several keystone criminals, stumblebum their way to…not much. Also featured in this comedy by Italian film legend Mario Monicelli are Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, who would go on to fame and fortune, but here have only modest parts. Mastroianni, who would later star in La Dolce Vita (1960), Il Bell’Antonio (1960), Divorzio all’italiana (1961) and many others, plays Tiberio a photographer without a camera, whose wife is in jail, who has a constantly crying baby to take care of with one of his arms up in a sling with a board under it. Cardinale, who would go on to become one of Italy’s most famous beauty bombshells, plays Carmelina, a young woman locked up by her brother in order to protect her honor until she marries.

Also featured are Carla Gravina (Nicoletta), a very pretty 17-year-old who went on to only a modest career, and the veteran Toto who plays the incompetent safecracker, Dante Cruciani. Notable is Renato Salvatori as Mario who wins Carmelina’s heart, Memmo Carotenuto as Cosimo who fails at purse-snatching, and Carlo Pisacane as Capannelle who looks like an aged member of the Bowery Boys.

The story begins when Cosimo is caught trying to steal a car. In prison he learns of a nice sting that he can pull off if only he can get out of jail. So he tries to hire a scapegoat to confess to the crime so he can be freed. Finally Peppe, after getting knocked out in the first round of a prize fight, decides he needs the money. However when he goes to confess, the police see through the ruse and throw him in jail without releasing Cosimo. But Peppe does get out, and he and the motley assortment of would-be jewel thieves plot their crime amid hilarious missteps, pratfalls and mass confusion as they break into an apartment that they have the keys for to knock down a wall (which wall?) to gain access to a safe they probably can’t crack. Will they succeed despite all the mishaps? There is a sense of both recovery and poverty in post World War II Italy in the backdrops and the asides and the circumstances of the characters that lend to this comedy a realistic edge. We see the petty thievery as an understandable and almost acceptable way of life, at least for the time being. Mario always buys or steals three identical things for his “mother” who turns out to be three women who raised him at the orphanage. Tiberio has to sell his camera and then steal one. Skinny Capannelle is always eating. And in the jail several men share one cigarette while they blow the smoke into a bottle to capture it so that others might get a little nicotine as well! (Sure, and I have some gum I can recycle.) The Criterion Collection DVD that I viewed has excellent yellow subtitles, but some of the lines come so fast and with such comedic as well as denotative intent that it is easy to miss something. Knowing Italian would help! See this for all the “bumbling criminal” movies that it both imitated and inspired, and for the fine work by the talented cast.

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Good Fluffy Heist Romp Loaded With Great Italian Stereotypes
As a veteran of heist movies, I think my opinion is valid when I say that it’s not so much a spoof of heist films like Rififi as it is just a funny movie about thieves who bumble their way through what could be a much slicker and less complicated heist if the thieves from Rififi were pulling it off instead. The movie enjoys its fair share of little con tricks and bait-and-switch-oriented goings-on, mostly played for laughs of surprise. Perhaps Big Deal On Madonna Street is a little too laid back to really be as memorable as I was thinking it would be, but it is very funny. It has several great sight gags and well-timed moments of Italian-faced goofiness.

The most entertaining thing about the film is the fact that it’s Italian. The Italian cast is so jampacked with overt stereotypes, everyone gesturing wildly and saying, “Mamma Mia!” The outcome of the heist is such a ridiculous slur on the comic strip archetype of Italians, something twice or thrice as hilarious to an American audience. However, the appeal is not just in the humor in what is either an Italian self-parody or an unaware display of every mocked Italian institution. It’s also the extroverted, old-fashioned world of your average Italian in this film. The first half hour of the film is a bunch of characters scrambling to find a friend who will take the rep for someone for a little while in prison, and everything continually gets more complicated and more tangled, and so many different people end up in prison. Not only do I find it amusing how nonchalant everyone is in deciding whether they will do this favor that involves spending time in jail or not, but I’m also fascinated about the idea that in Italy, crooks aren’t so much worried about what will happen to them when they go to prison as they’re worried to death of what their mother will think of them or how their mother will be so wounded by what has come of her son. It’s almost a beautiful mindset, if you ask me.

Big Deal On Madonna Street is no masterpiece, no movie that you desperately want to come back to, but it’s very funny and an enjoyable piece of European cinema.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min), 1 hr 52 min (112 min) (Italy)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Crime
Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori
Country Italy
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,045 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm