A group of bumbling, butter-fingered burglars try to pull off a heist with hilarious results in Mario Monicelli’s classic all-star comedy caper Big Deal on Madonna Street. Featuring Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Totò and more!
“Mario Monicelli’s Big Deal on Madonna Street is that genuine rarity in popular culture: a satire that not only helped kill off one movie genre, but started a whole new subgenre in the process. The film, released in Italy in 1958 as I Soliti ignoti, was a veritable treasure trove of cinematic influences, from Italian neorealism to Hollywood postwar film noir and its 1950s French cousin, all tied together in one neat 90-minute package.” – Bruce Eder, The Criterion Collection
