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    A cavallo della tigre 1961 POSTER

    A cavallo della tigre

    1961

    Italian

    7.1

    ♡ 3

    Comedy

    Drama

    Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini Director Ferdinando Gerra Ferdinando Gerra as Ferruccio De Ceresa Ferruccio De Ceresa as Coppola Mario Adorf Mario Adorf as Mario Tagliabue Gian Maria Volonté Gian Maria Volonté as Papaleo
    Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
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