How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

00:00:02 The lights are finally back !

00:03:38 Good evening.

00:08:46 to the poor, smelly alleys of Palermo in the '20s

00:13:25 constant hunger and humiliations that Ciccio will never forget.

00:17:17 He's just about to become Franco Franchi.

00:21:29 and, since I thought we were hungrier

00:29:43 like the famous Salone Margherita in Naples.

00:33:16 What kind of talk is this ?

00:37:12 - Honest ? - Yes, honest. I guarantee.

00:40:42 ''It's squalid theatre.''

00:44:34 the land of the Gattopardo.

00:48:20 This former member of the Federation of Young Communists

00:52:12 The duo is snubbed by the so-called serious cinema.

00:55:58 For the Italian critics, the farce was a garbage genre

01:00:10 General.

01:03:41 - Turning the other cheek. - Being also Greek.

01:08:01 This bar was where

01:10:53 Yet, they perform in ''Pinocchio'' by Comencini

01:14:38 Teo, get down. Enough of this !

01:18:31 No. Are you eating it ?

01:22:42 and profitable collaboration.

01:26:23 and he took part in a film

01:31:01 This people is you.

17:02:01 he directed them in 1 3 movies.