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Maria Pia Casilio has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Three Men and a Leg.
1959
Comedy
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.
Dir. Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Massimo Venier, Giovanni Storti · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Carlo Battisti, Napoleone the Dog, Maria Pia Casilio
Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Dir. Camillo Mastrocinque · With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Dir. Steno · With Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Ilse Peterson
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini
