The Payoff

The Payoff (1978)

La mazzetta

Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.

Date of release
1978-03-17
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Crime, Comedy
Director
Sergio Corbucci

Casting

Interesting facts

The Payoff is an Italian crime comedy film directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.

Production

Following the success of the crime novel La mazzetta, which sold over 55,000 copies in a few months, Luigi and Aurelio De Laurentiis acquired its rights and brought Sergio Corbucci on to direct it. The first screenplay, written by Dino Maiuri and Massimo De Rita, was considered unsuitable by Corbucci for being too hard-boiled and lacking credibility; Luciano De Crescenzo and Elvio Porta were then brought in and, working with Manfredi, reworked th…

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