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...woman of the title (Annie Girardot) is a freak: a poor thing covered from head to foot with a coat of long, brown, silky hair. The leading man (Ugo Tognazzi), a Neapolitan spiv, finds her working as a scullion in a convent kitchen. "Mamma mia!" he gasps. "She really looks like an ape. I could start a freak show and clean up." The idea scares her half to death. She's not very bright to begin with, and on top of that she is painfully ashamed of her affliction. But the spiv aggressively jollies her out of her objections...
Crazy Desire. "You look ten years younger when you laugh-you look fortyish," purrs the teenager. The man smiles grimly: "I'm 39," he says. As hero of this little-league Italian comedy that pits age against youth, Ugo Tognazzi plays, a late-maturing young businessman who boasts that he can get by with only four hours' sleep, though his physician deflates him by insisting that he needs eight, plus a nap after lunch...
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Playwright Ugo Betti finds a tiny glint of light in the tarnished soul of a corrupt justice and gives it a chance to shine after a suffocating night journey through the earthly kingdom of evil...
...Conjugal Bed--Ugo Tognazzi and Marina Vlady star in a comedy about the acting out in human terms of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the late of the drone who dares satisfy her. The Harvard Student Calender, December...
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, relentlessly builds to an unheard scream of conscience that resonates in the soul of an evil justice until he takes the first unsteady steps toward repentance...