"Who
stops is lost" 1960
by Sergio Corbucci.
Subject: Mario Guerra, Luciano Martino; screen-play: Bruno Corbucci,
Giovanni Grimaldi, Dino De Palma; starring: Totò (Antonio
Guardialavecchia), Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Lionello, Aroldo Tieri,
Jacqueline Pierreux, Luigi Pavese, Castellani, Anna Campori, Alberto
Talegalli, Pietro De Vico, production : Bistolfi.
Plot: The
two employees Antonio and Peppino in years work in the same company but
they are unable to have a successful career as opposed by their
treacherous office manager, Mr Santoro. When he suddenly dies, their
hope revives, but in the same time the anxiety to get a promotion by the
inspector coming from Rome, makes them enemies. Every one of them does
the impossible on one’s own to gain the inspector sympathy, but he isn’t
that one sent from Rome but his namesake. The sensational developments
and the equivocal multiply until the final one: the two enemies are sent
to Sardinia and their job is assigned to their younger colleague.
Film
completo: Chi si ferma è perduto
Review:
It seems that the script-writers wrote 6 several scripts before Totò was
pleased with their work. As usual the duets between Totò and Peppino are
exhilarating. Among the improvisations of Totò is great Ms Zoppelli
courtship, when to her words “The rest is silence”, he begins by singing
the military “Silence” and Ms Zoppelli can be hanging round him very
well.
Valentino De Carlo wrote: “Totò and Peppino again together, but this
time you laugh. At least the script deserves to show again old things
with a grace that is unknown by our not really important comic movies:
Totò and Peppino are ready to find also the smallest pretext to play
with taste”. And Pietro Bianchi: [..] “Who stops is lost” belongs to the
easy trend expected and a little vulgar of our facetious production.
Some verbal invention, a great interpretation of the couple Totò and
Peppino aren’t enough to invite an audience of taste to an honest fun.
It’s always the same old story of horns, poverty, qui pro quo [..]”.
