La Bomba Summary
Director: Giulio Base
Genres: Comedy
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In this bawdy Italian comedy, Nino (Alessandro_Gassman) and his buddy Sergio (Enrico_Brignano) are a pair of aspiring actors who decide to move to New York in hope of breaking into the business. Nino and Sergio meet another Italian expatriate at an audition, a sexy young woman named Daisy (Lola_Pagnani), and when the trio meet up with part-time actor and most-of-the-time waiter Gaetano (Rocco_Papaleo), they get a "brilliant" idea -- as an acting exercise and a way of making a few bucks, they'll pose as a powerful Mafia family that's just arrived in town. The truly remarkable part is that the venerable Don Vito (Vittorio_Gassman) actually falls for the ruse, and to shore up his crime empire even tries to arrange a marriage between Nino and his chaste daughter Immacolata (Chiara_Muti). A framing device turns most of the action into a movie-within-a-movie, even going so far as to report how well the internal movie did at the box office. Shelley_Winters plays an acting teacher in a cameo; Winters and fellow cast member Vittorio_Gassman were married from 1952 to 1954. Mark Deming, Rovi
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