The Two Marshals

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = The Two Marshals | image = The Two Marshals.jpg | caption = | director = Sergio Corbucci | writer = Totò Sergio Corbucci Marcello Fondato Sandro Continenza Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi | starring = Totò Vittorio De Sica Gianni Agus Arturo Bragaglia | music = Piero Piccioni | cinematography = Enzo Barboni | editing = Roberto Cinquini | producer = Gianni Buffardi | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1961|12|21}} | language = Italian | country = Italy | runtime = 99 minutes }}

'''''The Two Marshals''''' ({{langx|it|'''I due marescialli'''}}) is a 1961 Italian comedy film written and directed by Sergio Corbucci.<ref name="606l">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |author4=Mario Pecorari |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|year=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 1992|isbn=8876055932}}</ref><ref name=Morandini>{{cite book|author1=Laura Morandini |author2=Luisa Morandini |author3=Morando Morandini |title=Il Morandini: Dizionario dei film, 2006|year=2005 |publisher=Zanichelli, 2005|isbn=8808327108}}</ref><ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}</ref> The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.<ref>Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. ''Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis''. Newton & Compton, 1996. {{ISBN|88-8183-306-9}}.</ref>

== Plot == In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the Nazis and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a carabinieri marshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of the Badoglio Proclamation, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a partisan, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.

== Cast == *Totò as Antonio Capurro *Vittorio De Sica as Marshal Vittorio Cotone *Gianni Agus as Achille Pennica, the Podestà *Arturo Bragaglia as Don Nicola *Franco Giacobini as Basilio Meneghetti *Elvy Lissiak as Vanda *Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler *Olimpia Cavalli as Immacolata Di Rosa *Mario Castellani as the Thief *Mimmo Poli as the Postman *Bruno Corelli as Benegatti, the Lawyer [[File:I_due_marescialli.png|thumb|right|Vittorio De Sica, Totó and Gianni Agus]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0054830}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Two Marshals}} Category:Italian comedy films Category:Films directed by Sergio Corbucci Category:1961 comedy films Category:1961 films Category:Films set in 1943 Category:Films about Italian resistance movement Category:Films about the Italian campaign (World War II) Category:Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi Category:Films scored by Piero Piccioni Category:1961 Italian-language films Category:1961 Italian films Category:Italian-language comedy films Category:Italian black-and-white films