The Strange Type

The Strange Type (1963)

Uno strano tipo

Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.

Date of release
1963-02-28
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Lucio Fulci

Casting

Interesting facts

Una strano tipo is a 1963 Italian musicarello directed by Lucio Fulci. The film stars musician Adriano Celentano as himself. Celentano arrives in a small town on vacation when he finds that everyone in town hates him. He soon finds out a local troublemaker named Peppino is a lookalike and has been claiming to be the famous singer.

Production

Uno strano tipo was an Italian production from Giovanni Addessi Produzione Cinematografica S.p.A.. The film was shot in Amalfi. Like Fulci's earlier films Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) and Urlatori alla sbarra (1960), Uno strano tipo was a musicarello. The musicarello was a short-lived cycle of musical films produced primarily between 1958 and 1971, which were primarily targeted to audiences in their late teens and early 20s.

Adriano Celentano performs in the film, as he had for Fulci's previous films Ragazzi del Juke-Box and Urlatori alla sbarra. Celentano performs as himself and a buffonnish double in the film. On set, Celentano met Claudia Mori and were married the next year.

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