The Payoff
Mar 17 1978
•2h 50m
•Crime, Comedy
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.
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Nino Manfredi
Sasà Iovine
Paolo Stoppa
Don Michele Miletti
Marisa Laurito
Luisella
Gennaro Di Napoli
Nicola Casali
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