Big Deal on Madonna Street

“The Story of a Perfect Crime ... Perfectly Hilarious!”

In 1958 Rome, Peppe il pantera (Vittorio Gassman) and Mario Angeletti (Renato Salvatori) are small-time thieves who rarely come out ahead. Peppe has a plan, though: rent the apartment next to a pawnshop, dig a tunnel through to its safe, and bring in a few other criminals, none of whom has ever dug anything. Mario Monicelli plays the whole crew as a bunch of ordinary neighbors, each one with his own worries.