Episodes from I Complessi and Controsesso

The episode film is a staple of Italian comedy, in anthologies of "short story" films with different directors and actors, such as tonight's, or films such as Dino Risi's Vedo Nudo (July 24 with Nino Manfredi) and Il Mattatore (July 5 with Vittorio Gassman) which allow one actor to portray a gallery of types with remarkable skill. Una Giornata Decisiva (A Crucial Day), directed by Dino Risi for I Complessi (1965), was Canceled, and in its place was shown Le Vacanze Intelligenti (70 mins). In Guglielmo il Dentone (William Big Teeth), directed by Filippo D'Amico for the same film, Alberto Sordi fights for a job as announcer at RAI-tv despite an enormous set of front teeth that make him a less than likely candidate. In Il Professore, directed by Marco Ferreri for Controsesso (1964), Ugo Tognazzi is a sexually repressed professor in a provincial girls' high school who finds a unique way to cater to his particular fetish.

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