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La Grande bagarre de Don Camillo
1955 Comedy
Review
For this, the third in the series of Franco-Italian Don Camillo films, the directorial
baton passed from Julien Duvivier to veteran Italian director Carmine Gallone. Fernandel
and Gino Cervi continue to play the roles they had made their own in the previous Don
Camillo outings, although both are ill-served by a much weaker script than they had previously
enjoyed. Whilst the film still evokes the charm of Giovanni Guareschi’s original
Don Camillo novels, and whilst Fernandel turns in another beautiful performance as the
roguish parish priest, the film’s limp direction and lacklustre plot prevent it
from having the entertainment value of the previous two films in the series.
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Director:
Carmine Gallone
Starring: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain, Leda Gloria Synopsis
Don Camillo, Catholic priest of a small North Italian town, is infuriated when the town’s
communist mayor, Peppone, declares his intention to stand as a candidate in the coming
governmental elections. The idea of Peppone wielding even more power than
he has now galvanises Don Camillo to try to sabotage his chances of winning the election.
Then, after a tête-a-tête with the Almighty, he has a change of heart…
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