Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round -Don Camillo e l'Onorevole Peppone
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Produced by	Angelo Rizzoli
Written by	Giovannino Guareschi (novel) Age & Scarpelli, Giovannino Guareschi, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, René Barjavel
Starring	Gino Cervi, Fernandel, Claude Sylvain
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Release dates	1955 (1955)
Running time	97 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Don Camillo's Last Round is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. The French title is La grande bagarre de Don Camillo and the Italian title is Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone. It was the third of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the communist mayor of their rural town. The film had 5,087,231 admissions in France.^[1]

Plot

In the small village of Brescello are continuing skirmishes between the parish priest Don Camillo and the communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. The latter, after a theft of chickens against Don Camillo, finally decides to get around in big politics, going to stand as senator in Rome. In fact Peppone is convinced by a female "friend" of his party, but the mayor's wife goes to complain to Don Camillo, who decides to replace the embarrassing situation.

Cast

• Fernandel as Don Camillo
• Gino Cervi as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
• Claude Sylvain as Clotilde
• Leda Gloria as La signora Bottazzi, moglie di Peppone
• Umberto Spadaro as Bezzi
• Memmo Carotenuto as Lo Spiccio
• Saro Urzì as Brusco, il parucchiere
• Guido Celano as Il maresciallo
• Luigi Tosi as Il prefetto
• Marco Tulli as Lo Smilzo

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