Colpo gobbo all'italiana

• Mario Carotenuto as Nando Paciocchi • Marisa Merlini as Nunziata, Maggiola's wife • Andrea Checchi as Orazio Menicotti • Gina Rovere as Gina, Paciocchi's wife • Gino Bramieri as Panza • Aroldo Tieri as Tifillo, the burglar • Gabriele Antonini as Ennio • Hélène Chanel as the French blonde • Ombretta Colli as Silvana, Ennio's girlfriend • Jole Fierro as Ines, a sex worker • Nino Terzo as Maggiola ==Production==

''Colpo gobbo all'italiana'' was a production of two Italian film production companies: Mirafilm and Marcus Produzione Cinematografica. It was directed by Lucio Fulci. While Fulci biographer Stephen Thrower's book Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci (2018) only credits Bruno Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi for the screenplay, includes Beppe Costa. The film was previously known as La nottola in bicicletta ( before its release. The film's opening features a song titled "La Nottola di notte" () performed and written by Gianni Meccia. The title ''Colpo gobbo all'italiana combines the names of two other works: Colpo gobbo'' is an Italian title for the Mickey Spillane's novel The Big Kill (1951) while "all'italiania" borrows from the popular film Divorce Italian Style (1961). Mario Carotenuto was a prolific actor in comedy films of the period in Italy, who previously had appeared in Fulci's earlier films Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) and Urlatori alla sbarra (1960). Carotenuto, who had written the story and also served as producer, clashed with Fulci over changes to the script; after filming wrapped, Fulci ended his friendship with him, and the two never worked together again. Thrower said that the film could be describe as Fulci's contribution to the "oft-reviled" pink neorealism genre of Italian cinema. ==Release and reception==

''Colpo gobbo all'italiana was distributed in Italy by Mirafilm released to theatres in Turin and Bari May 11, followed by a release in Rome on June 9, 1962. It grossed a total of 116.630 million Italian lire in Italy. The film stayed in theaters through mid-1962 and was still playing in Rome through September. While Dizionario del cinema italiano said the box office in Italy was lower than earlier films like I ladri'' (1959), a film Fulci described as a financial flop. It had a 100-minute runtime on its theatrical release in Italy and a 90-minute runtime in Spain when it played in Barcelona and Seville as La rubia tuvo la culpa in 1965. ==See also==