Franca Valeri

Political comedy starring old Italian favorite Toto

Poker in Bed (great title) is a delightful Italian sex comedy starring Carlo Giuffre as a handsome shoe salesman who turns gigolo when his gambling gets him into trouble. Soon he's juggling three women (and endangering his health from overexertion) when Edwige Fenech waltzes into his life, debasing herself to our amusement as a German health nut and Richard Wagner enthusiast who can only become aroused when wet. (imdb)

Mario De Santis, seller of toothpaste and regularly married with Valeria, gets accused of being a bigamist.

Toto' a colori was the first Italian movie to be shot with a colour film, but the sensitivity was very low (6 asa!) so the actors had to act under a very strong lighting and high temperature. (imdb)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble. (imdb)

Comedy about a football champion who is afflicted by jealousy when he rejoins his girlfriend after a separation. (ftvdb.bfi)

Mr. Nardi, who has expensive tastes and not a good nose for business, is constantly asking his rich wife Elvira for large sums of money! One day, sick and tired of this habit of his, she refuses to help! Driven crazy by his creditors, while he rejoices at the news of his wife's train crushed into the lake... she arrives home by car! Determined to kill her at all costs, as the only way out of his financial miseries.. (movie-time)

Murder mystery about three couples who are involved in the murder of a wealthy woman.

A journalist undertakes an enquiry into human selfishness. (bfi)

The story of two cousins: one unattractive, desperately searching for the man of her dreams, and the other beautiful, but totally uninterested in sentimental affairs. However, it is the second who finds the right man, while the former is left searching. (bfi)

Story of a love affair between an American girl in Rome and an Italian prince. (bfi)

Comedy about the attempts of a young father to seduce a palæontology student on a train journey to southern Italy. (bfi)

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, the husband of Luisa. Alberto offers himself to help Paolo in solving his problem, but when the two men arrive at home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. What to do? The two men try a series of way to help Luisa.. (imdb)

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

In Positano, a group of men try unsuccessfully to seduce young tourists at the end of the summer season.