There's that nice fellow (Marcello Mastroianni) who has a wife temporarily in jail and so has to mind the baby, which takes a lot of would-be burglar's time. In the first place, they have a terrible time getting all of their elements together and headed the same way. For the "big deal" referred to in that title (which was not the Italian title, by the way) is the contemplated burglary of a smalltime jeweler's safe, and the fellows who conspire to do it try to lay out their plans in the same "scientific" fashion as did the robbers in that serious French film.But, of course, they are not successful. A LONGTIME popular subject for vaudeville and music-hall farce, the butter-fingered burglar who thoroughly goofs while trying to rob a safe, is given a full-scale treatment and knocked out by a top name cast in the new Italian comedy, "The Big Deal on Madonna Street." Directed by Mario Monicelli, one of the bright new directors on the Italian scene, this eventually explosive kit of cut-ups opened at the Fine Arts yesterday.Obviously the film was calculated as an out-and-out parody of the French melodrama, "Rififi," which was a bit in Italy.
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