An honest janitor (Toto) is tempted into using a 10,000 lire plate to start manufacturing notes; helped by printer Peppino de Filippo and artist Giacomo Furia. The son Gabriele Tinti works for the Finance Police and starts to look for the counterfeiters; a sub-plot charts his relationship with the printer's daughter, Giulia Rubini.
Wall-to-wall dialogue, including some hard-to-translate wordplay, means you're reading fast subtitles for 70% of the time, but it's still an entertaining journey.
Photographed in Rome by Mario Fioretti, exuberant music by Alessandro Cicognini.
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