''Il ficcanaso'' (''The Nosy One'') is a 1981 Italian
giallo
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comedy film
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directed by
Bruno Corbucci.
Plot
Luciano Persichetti is haunted by a mysterious killer who calls himself "The Guardian Angel" with precognitive abilities.
Cast
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Pippo Franco
Pippo Franco (pseudonym of Franco Pippo) was born 2 September 1940 and is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and singer. He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s began a career in film, starrin ...
: Luciano Persichetti
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Edwige Fenech
Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is an Algerian-born Maltese-Sicilian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released in the 1970s, which turned her ...
: Susanna Luisetti
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Pino Caruso
Giuseppe Caruso (12 October 1934 – 7 March 2019), best known as Pino Caruso, was an Italian actor, author and television personality.
Life and career
Caruso was born in Palermo, Sicily and debuted as dramatic stage actor in his home town in ...
: Inspector
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Laura Troschel
Laura Troschel (3 November 1944 – 29 September 2016) was an Italian actress, singer and model.
Life and career
Born in Varese, Troschel made her debut in cinema in a role of weight in ''The Sex of Angels'' (1968), by Ugo Liberatore. Later, sh ...
: Carla Foscari
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Luc Merenda
Luc Charles Olivier Merenda (born 3 September 1943) is a French film actor.
He was one of the most prominent actors of the Italian poliziotteschi genre, working several times with Sergio Martino and Fernando Di Leo. He is of Italian origin thr ...
: Paolo
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Sergio Leonardi
Sergio Leonardi (born 26 March 1944) is an Italian singer and actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Leonardi started performing as an impersonator and singer at 16 years old. Noted by producer and songwriter Enrico Polito, he made his professio ...
: Lino
See also
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List of Italian films of 1981
A list of films produced in Italy in 1981 (see 1981 in film):
References Footnotes
Sources
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External linksItalian films of 1981at the Internet Movie Database
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1981
Events January
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References
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1981 films
1981 comedy films
1980s comedy mystery films
1980s Italian-language films
Films directed by Bruno Corbucci
Films scored by Franco Micalizzi
Giallo films
Italian comedy mystery films
1980s Italian films
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