Operazione San Pietro
Operazione San Pietro internationally released as Operation St. Peters is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Lucio Fulci. Beginning with the title, the film consists in a sort of unofficial sequel of Operazione San Gennaro, a successful heistcomedy film that Dino Risi had filmed the previous year.
Napoleon Lando Buzzanca is a smalltime crook with big ideas. In prison in Naples where he is serving time for a robbery charge, he is sprung by accident when a foppish villain calling himself the Baron Pinuccio Ardia and his two numbskull cohorts, Agonia Ugo Fangareggi and the Captain Dante Maggio, tunnel under his cell, having lost their way to an expected bank vault. Napoleon escapes with his rescuers through the tunnel, and upon arrival on the outside of the prison, he discovers that the three are flat broke, despite the welldressed appearance of the Baron. Napoleon swiftly asserts himself as leader of the group by pretending to be a master criminal and suggests that they move to Rome for richer pickings. The four of them are forced to travel to Rome in the back of a cattle truck since they do not have a car.On the outskirts of Rome, the gang falls in with a seedy crook and gigolo who called himself Il Cajella JeanClaude Brialy, who owns a dilapidated usedcar lot which Napoleon elects as his gangs hideout and Cajella as their coconspiratorprotector. At first, Napoleons renewed criminal activates are unambitious and he is soon caught sealing a womans purse at a local shopping center. Before the security guards can call the police, Marisa Christine Barclay the woman whose purse hed stolen comes, forward the announces that she knows him and saves him from arrest. Marisa insists on calling Napoleon Filiberto, as it turns out merely because he resembles her dead husband. ........
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