Don Camillo's Last Round
- 30 September 1955 (1955-09-30)
Italy
Don Camillo's Last Round (French: La grande bagarre de Don Camillo, Italian: Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone) is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Leda Gloria. It was the third of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town. The film had 5,087,231 admissions in France.[1]
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Boretto and Brescello in Emilia-Romagna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi.
Plot
In the small town of Brescello, skirmishes are continuing between the parish priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. After staging a theft of Don Camillo's prized chickens in retribution for a political prank pulled by the priest, Peppone decides to enter the big time of politics by standing for national senator. Peppone has been assisted by a winsome young lady comrade sent from the big city to assist him, but the mayor's wife – suspecting more – complains to Don Camillo, who endeavours to remedy the threatened domestic breakdown. Peppone must the fifth grade exam, the elementary school leving exam ("abolished" in 2003–2004).
Cast
- Fernandel as Don Camillo
- Gino Cervi as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
- Claude Sylvain as Clotilde
- Leda Gloria as La signora Bottazzi, moglie di Peppone
- Umberto Spadaro as Bezzi
- Memmo Carotenuto as Lo Spiccio
- Saro Urzì as Brusco, il parucchiere
- Guido Celano as Il maresciallo
- Luigi Tosi as Il prefetto
- Marco Tulli as Lo Smilzo
- Giovanni Onorato as Il Lungo
Sequel
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (Italian: Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo; French: Don Camillo Monseigneur)[2] (1961)
- Don Camillo in Moscow (Italian: Il compagno don Camillo; French: Don Camillo en Russie)[3] (1965)
- Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (French: Don Camillo et ses contestataires; English translated: Don Camillo and the youth of today) [4] (1970) (unfinished film)
References
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- The Naked Truth (1914)
- Senza colpa! (1915)
- Flower of Evil (1915)
- The Wedding March (1915)
- Sotto le tombe (1915)
- Avatar (1916)
- La falena (1916)
- Malombra (1917)
- The Thirteenth Man (1917)
- La storia di un peccato (1918)
- Redemption (1919)
- A Doll Wife (1919)
- The Sea of Naples (1919)
- On with the Motley (1920)
- The Faces of Love (1924)
- The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
- The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
- Ship in Distress (1929)
- The Singing City (1930)
- City of Song (1931)
- My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
- A Son from America (1932)
- Sailor's Song (1932)
- Going Gay (1933)
- My Heart Calls You (1934)
- Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
- My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
- My Heart is Calling (1935)
- Casta Diva (1935)
- If It Were Not for Music (1935)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Thank You, Madame (1936)
- Mother Song (1937)
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- Marionette (1939)
- The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
- Eternal Melodies (1940)
- Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
- Manon Lescaut (1940)
- Beyond Love (1940)
- The Secret Lover (1941)
- First Love (1941)
- The Two Orphans (1942)
- The Queen of Navarre (1942)
- Odessa in Flames (1942)
- Harlem (1943)
- Sad Loves (1943)
- The Song of Life (1945)
- Biraghin (1946)
- Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
- The Legend of Faust (1949)
- The Force of Destiny (1950)
- Night Taxi (1950)
- Messalina (1951)
- We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
- Fatal Desire (1953)
- Puccini (1953)
- Madame Butterfly (1954)
- House of Ricordi (1954)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
- Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
- Michel Strogoff (1956)
- Tosca (1956)
- Carthage in Flames (1960)
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
- Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
- La monaca di Monza (1962)
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