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Everybody Go Home. Alberto Sordi is fairly funny in a fairly funny comedy about Italy's armed farces during World...
...months in Italian history. On Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...
...Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...
...Best of Enemies. The funny story of a phony war in Ethiopia, starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi...
...Best of Enemies. The funny story of a phony war in Ethiopia, starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi...