There's such a thing as being too honest, as this film shows. Totò, a naive doorman, is bequeathed an engraving set including all the necessary equipment for the making of 10,000 lira notes. He gets to work right away. But it seems the police are on the lookout for a gang of professional counterfeiters. This clever film is a showcase for Totò and Peppino's ad-libbed routines, as well as for Totò's technique, as series translator Gordon Poole describes it: "As Lewis Carroll knew, invented language is not just puns...but also various kinds and degrees of nonsense...Sometimes nonsense language integrates with gesture, as in a zany scene in The Gang of Honest Men, where Totò, having made a promise to a dying man, is taking his pulse....'Just listen: one, two, three-Hey! There's a communication break here.'...Totò shakes the dead man's wrist (reminding us of Groucho Marx's remark in Monkey Business), 'Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.'"