Avanti!


Avanti is a 1972 AmericanItalian comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1968 play of the same title by Samuel Taylor.

Complications arise when the bodies disappear from the morgue. Wendell suspects Pamela, who has expressed a wish that they be buried in Ischia however, it is revealed that the actual bodysnatchers are the Trotta family, whose vineyard was damaged when the elder Armbrusters car drove into it during the fatal automobile accident. The Trotta brothers have stolen the bodies from the morgue, holding them for a two million lire ransom.This is not Wendells only problem. Bruno, the hotel valet, is determined to get back to America after being deported and has compromising photographs of Wendells father and Pamelas mother swimming nude in the bay. As the Italian atmosphere begins to affect them both and animosity gives way to friendship, Bruno manages to get pictures of Wendell and Pamela swimming naked as well, and tries to blackmail his way to an American visa. This displeases the maid Anna, with whom Bruno was cohabiting, and in a fit of rage she lures Bruno to Pamelas room, kills him, and then runs off. Carlucci moves Pamelas belongings into Wendells room to prevent an international incident, and the two are thrown together. ........

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