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Hero Nino Manfredi is a cheerful, sensitive young chap who chauffeurs cadavers around Madrid. One day he meets the public executioner's daughter (Emma Penella), a deep-bosomed spinster whose marriage opportunities have been blighted by her father's profession. Already bound by the facts of death, the daughter and the hearse driver soon begin to share the facts of life as well. When the girl becomes pregnant, the couple get married-at a macabre economy-sized ceremony in a busy chapel where the flowers, candlelight and carpeting are spirited away as they...
Director Berlanga, to his immense credit, works exclusively with live ones. His characters are sharply observed, warmly played. When Manfredi is summoned at last to finish off a condemned man on the sunny island of Majorca, he takes his wife along for their honeymoon. The gay holidays end with a jolt in a bleak prison courtyard where uniformed guards are forced to drag the reluctant executioner and his victim to ward the hour of judgment. The comment is strong but disappointingly literal, for Life loses ground as a first-rank satire when it stops kidding its message and starts preaching...
...show revolves around a picaresque little man hero, Rugantino (Nino Manfredi), who wants to be the kind of I came-I pinched-I conquered-I told male who has always appealed to the Latin imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into...
...Yard Punch this Wednesday from 3 to 4:30 p.m., there will be a jazz improvisation group. The group will be headed by Tom Kierenon on trumpet; on piana is Alan Perlman; on drums is Phil Manfredi; there will also be a bass player...
...Pastor Cannito rushed to the district judge, who promised to review the case, meantime warned Cannito that if one more stone went up, the pastor would go to jail. By last week, work had been stopped on the half-finished Baptist Church of Sant'Angelo in Villa. Said Manfredi Ronchi, president of the Baptist Union of Italy: "If dark forces prevail, we will have to suffer...