Franco Franchi

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.

Mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot plots another twisted scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military maneuvers. They're very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".

Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.

Franco and Ciccio are two cousins ​​who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they carry out the washing and drying of the horses and a bar service for the passing riders. One day a stranger saves them from an attempted robbery against them: the girl introduces herself as Calamity Jane, as well as Franco and Ciccio's aunt.

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 shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.

Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.

A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though.

For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.

Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.

Yanlışlıkla orduya çağrılan Nicoletta sadakatsiz erkek arkadaşını kontrol etme fırsatını yakalar. Ancak kışladaki tek tuhaflık, Nicoletta'nın varlığı değildir.

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.

The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.

Bu film 19. yüzyıl Sicilya'sında yer alan dört hikâye ile bir epilogdan oluşur. Öteki Oğul adlı birinci hikâyede Mariagrazia'nın üç oğlu vardır ve biri onunla yaşar. Oğlunun ona olan saygısına rağmen, kadın onu aşağılamadan edemez. Ay Çarpması adlı ikinci hikâye Sidoro adlı bir kadını konu alır; Sidoro'nun kocası dolunay olduğu zaman sara nöbetleri geçirmektedir ve Sidoro'nun bunu komşularından saklaması lazımdır. Küp adlı hikâyede bir derebeyi, bir zanaatkârı devasa bir zeytin küpünü tamir etmekle görevlendirir, ancak zanaatkâr çalışırken küpün içinde tutsak kalır. Dördüncü hikâye Ağıt'ta bir grup köylü, ölülerinin gömülmesi için, derebeyleri olan Baron`a ve bir grup yetkiliye karşı bir mücadele yürütür. Anneyle Sohbet adlı son bölüm, Pirandello ile ölmüş annesinin gölgesi arasındaki bir diyalogdan oluşur.

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for Carmen Russo and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio . The program also included pure variety segments, animated inserts and ballets.