Country: Italy
Year: 1978
Duration: 110'
Sas` Jovine is a Neapolitan who earns his living pretending to be a lawyer. Don Michele Miletti , an industrialist, assigns him to search for his daughter Giulia, who has run away form home and to recover some compromising documents. He promises Jovine a substantial "payoff." Jovine starts searching and finds the body of Tina, the third wife of Don Michele. He finds Pino Gargiulo as well, the young man who has gotten Giulia pregnant. Jovine then has to confront Don Nicola Casali, Don Michele's partner and enemy, who wants to get hold of those famous documents himself.
Biography
film director
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (Rome 1927-1990) began his professional career as a journalist. In 1952 he made his first film, Island Sinner. His first true commercial success was The Two Marshals (1961), with Totñ and Vittorio De Sica. He then tried his hand at westerns, with Django! (1966), Navajo Joe (1966) and Il Grande Silenzio (1968). At the end of 1970's made two mystery movies on location in Naples, The Payoff (1978) and Neapolitan Mystery (1979). During the 1980's he was a top box office draw with I'm Getting a Yacht (1981), Count Tacchia (1982) and Sing Sing (1983). After directing numerous successes returned to the mystery genre, this time in Milan, with ! Giorni del Commissario Ambrosio (1988). His last film was Night Club (1989).
FILMOGRAFIA
La peccatrice dell'isola (1952), Suprema confessione (1956), I ragazzi dei Parioli (1959), Totñ, Peppino e la dolce vita (1961), Romolo e Remo (1961), Maciste contro il vampiro (1961), I due marescialli (1961), Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962), Il figlio di Spartacus (1963), Django! (1966), Navajo Joe (1966), Il mercenario (1968), Il grande silenzio (1968), Gli specialisti (1969), Il bestione (1974), Di che segno sei? (1975), Ecco noi per esempio (1978), Pari e dispari (1978), La mazzetta (1978), Giallo napoletano (1979), Mi faccio la barca (1981), Il conte Tacchia (1982), Sing Sing (1983), A tu per tu (1984), Roba da ricchi (1987), Rimini Rimini (1987), I giorni del commissario Ambrosio (1988), Night Club (1989).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Sergio Corbucci.
Plot: dal romanzo di Attilio Veraldi.
Screenplay: Luciano De Crescenzo, Massimo De Rita, Dino Maiuri, Elvio Porta.
Director of photography: Luigi Kuveiller.
Art director: Giantito Burchiellaro.
Costume designer: Bruna Parmesan.
Editor: Amedeo Salfa.
Music: Pino Daniele.
Cast and characters: Nino Manfredi (Sas` Jovine), Marisa Laurito (Luisella), Gennaro Di Napoli (Nicola Casali), Ugo Tognazzi (commissario Assenza), Paolo Stoppa (Don Michele Miletti), Imma Piro (Giulia Miletti).
Production company: Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis per Filmauro.
Plot: dal romanzo di Attilio Veraldi.
Screenplay: Luciano De Crescenzo, Massimo De Rita, Dino Maiuri, Elvio Porta.
Director of photography: Luigi Kuveiller.
Art director: Giantito Burchiellaro.
Costume designer: Bruna Parmesan.
Editor: Amedeo Salfa.
Music: Pino Daniele.
Cast and characters: Nino Manfredi (Sas` Jovine), Marisa Laurito (Luisella), Gennaro Di Napoli (Nicola Casali), Ugo Tognazzi (commissario Assenza), Paolo Stoppa (Don Michele Miletti), Imma Piro (Giulia Miletti).
Production company: Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis per Filmauro.