Academy Awards, USA 1959
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film
Italy
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Lux Film (Italy)
Directed by Mario Monicelli
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
A petty crook bungles a car theft in Rome and is sent to prison. He comes up with a scheme to rob a pawn shop after learing from a fellow inmate that he put in a weak wall between it and the apartment next door. Stuck in prison, he tries to find someone else to take the rap and serve the time by paying him money. A struggling boxer takes him up on the offer, but the police are onto them and they both end up in prison. However, the boxer gets an early release and assembles the gang of inept, small-time crooks to pull-off the pawn shop heist. It all goes hilariously wrong. Classic Italian film is still laugh out loud funny today.
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