The Two Marshals
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| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci | 
| Produced by | Gianni Buffardi | 
| Written by | Totò Sergio Corbucci Marcello Fondato Sandro Continenza Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi  | 
| Starring | Totò  Vittorio De Sica Gianni Agus Arturo Bragaglia  | 
| Music by | Piero Piccioni | 
| Cinematography | Enzo Barboni | 
| Edited by | Roberto Cinquini | 
Release date  | 
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Running time  | 99 min | 
| Country | Italy | 
| Language | Italian | 
The Two Marshals (Italian: I due marescialli) is a 1961 Italian comedy film written and directed by Sergio Corbucci.[1][2][3] The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.[4]
Plot[edit]
In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the Nazis and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a carabinieri marshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of the Badoglio Proclamation, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a partisan, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.
Cast[edit]
- Totò as Antonio Capurro
 - Vittorio De Sica as Marshal Vittorio Cotone
 - Gianni Agus as Achille Pennica, the Podestà
 - Arturo Bragaglia as Don Nicola
 - Franco Giacobini as Basilio Meneghetti
 - Elvy Lissiak as Vanda
 - Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler
 - Olimpia Cavalli as Immacolata Di Rosa
 - Mario Castellani as the Thief
 - Mimmo Poli as the Postman
 - Bruno Corelli as Benegatti, the Lawyer
 
References[edit]
- ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
 - ↑ Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini (2005). Il Morandini: Dizionario dei film, 2006. Zanichelli, 2005. ISBN 8808327108.
 - ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
 - ↑ Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis. Newton & Compton, 1996. ISBN 88-8183-306-9.
 
External links[edit]
- Articles containing Italian-language text
 - Pages using Lang-xx templates
 - Italian comedy films
 - Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
 - 1961 comedy films
 - 1961 films
 - Films set in 1943
 - Films about Italian resistance movement
 - Italian Campaign of World War II films
 - Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi
 - Films scored by Piero Piccioni
 - 1960s Italian-language films
 - 1960s Italian films