Alberto Sorrentino

Totò stars in this spoof of Cecil B. De Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen. (imdb)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him. (imdb)

Two pensioners, one an ex-womaniser who has spent his fortune on the high life and the other an uptight character decide to go on holiday together with comic results. (ftvdb.bfi)

Two detectives are hired by an old countess to find out whether a villa she wants to turn into an orphanage is haunted. They find out that the noble-woman's relatives are involved : they do not want to lose the estate to the orphanage. (imdb)

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead. (imdb)

An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands, and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge. (imdb)

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl. (imdb)

A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio (literally Rio Donkey). They even kill the sheriff but his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place. (bfi)

Jolanda discovers she is not the daughter of the gypsy who raised her, but of the Count of Ventimiglia, the Black Corsair, killed by Van Guld, the current governor of Maracaibo. (MUBI)

Italia anthology movie.