Neapolitan Mystery
– Mastroanni plays a mandolin player who, while trying to cover his senile father's gambling debts, is..
Mastroanni plays a mandolin player who, while trying to cover his senile father's gambling debts, is sent to perform a serenade at a high rise building and witnesses a shootout and a man being thrown from a window to his death (the first of several falls from windows that the beleaguered hero witnesses). He gets mixed up with a famous conductor and his gorgeous wife as well as with the conductor's beautiful daughter-in-law. The whole thing involves a confusingly intricate blackmail plot and a horrible secret dating back to World War II.
12 Apr 1979
Italian
Sergio Corbucci
Giuseppe Catalano, Sabatino Ciuffini (screenplay), Sabatino Ciuffini (story), Elvio Porta
Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Pozzetto
A mandolin professor, reduced to playing the itinerant player, sees his feeble gains wasted at the game by his father.