BOTTA E RISPOSTA
Sc.: Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini, Amedeo Maiuri, Steno, Mario Monicelli, Pierre Léaud, Marcello Marchesi, M. Soldati. F.: Aldo Tonti. Mu.: Pippo Barzizza, Don Alfonso, Dorothea Freitag. M.: Douglas Robertson. Scgf: Piero Filippone. Cost.: John Pratt. Op.: Luciano Tonti. Ass.R.: Cesare Olivieri. Cast: Nino Taranto (Pasquale Criscuolo), Isa Barzizza (Cleo Maselli), Irasema Dilian (Louise), Dante Maggio (portiere), Fernandel (imbianchino), Ernesto Almirante (col. Giuseppe), Enrico Viarisio (Paquito), Ferval (Felipe), Aldo Tonti (direttore di scena), M. Soldati (sportellista), Jean London, Raoul Marco, Suzy Delair, Silvio Gigli, Achille D’Angelo (il Mago di Napoli), Wanda Osiris, Renato Rascel, Andreina Paul, Carlo Dapporto, Nyta Dover, Claudio Villa, Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Katherine Dunham & Boys, Nichola’s Brothers, Borrah Minevitch Rascals, Ella Fitzgerald, Barney Bigard, Kay Mathews. Prod.: Dino De Laurentiis; 35mm. L.: 2923 m. D.: 107’ a 24 f/s. Bn.
Film Notes
Botta e risposta was meant, more than as a film, as an entertainment aimed to introduce the great public of the cinema to some of the stronger personalities from revue and performing arts, both inside and outside the boundaries, together with the exceedingly famous stars of both the screen and variety in Italy and France. A messenger (Taranto), manages to have a dress stolen from him by a lovely kleptomaniac (Ms. Barzizza), who also relieved a vacationing whitewasher (Fernandel) of his wallet; the regular motif of objects on the run allows for breaks and transitions from one scene to the next.
Vice, in «La stampa», 4/3/1950