Movies: Franco Franchi

A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble....

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello....

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first....

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted....

Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm...

Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife....

A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal....

A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared....

To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan"....

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem....

Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness....

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Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble....

Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other....

Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a fac...

A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story....

A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship....

Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat....

Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs ...

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