''An Italian in America'' ( it, Un italiano in America) is a 1967

Commedia all'italiana Commedia all'italiana (, pl. Commedie all'italiana, "Comedy in the Italian way") or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mar ...

film co-written and directed by

Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...

and starring the same Sordi opposite

Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...

. Screenwriter

Rodolfo Sonego Rodolfo Sonego (27 February 1921 – 15 October 2000) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as ''A Difficult Life'', '' Il vedovo'', and '' The Traffic Policeman''. Life and career Born in Cavarzano, Belluno, ...

was inspired for the plot by the participation of one of his friends, the painter Salvatore Scarpitta, to the NBC program '' This Is Your Life''.

Plot

Cast

as Giuseppe Marozzi *

as Lando Marozzi * Franco Valobra as Giuseppe's Communist friend *

Bill Dana William Szathmary (October 5, 1924 June 15, 2017), known as Bill Dana, was an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He often appeared on television shows such as ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', frequently in the guise of a heavily accented Boli ...

as TV presenter *

Gray Frederickson Gray Frederickson (July 21, 1937 – November 20, 2022) was an American film producer. Frequent collaborators and history Frederickson was a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and worked out of a studio alongside Greg Mellott out of O ...

* Lou Perry * Valentino Macchi * Alice Conden

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* Italian comedy films Commedia all'italiana 1967 comedy films 1967 films Films directed by Alberto Sordi Films scored by Piero Piccioni Films shot in New York City 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films Films about Italian-American culture {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub