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Big Deal on Madonna Street
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| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi |
| Written by | Furio Scarpelli Renato Salvatori Suso Cecchi d'Amico |
| Starring | Vittorio Gassman Totò Claudia Cardinale Marcello Mastroianni |
| Release date(s) | June 30, 1958 (Italy) November 22, 1960 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian: I soliti ignoti, also released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian crime film, directed by Mario Monicelli. Its title translates as "the usual unknown persons", a bureaucratic phrase for unidentified criminals. The film is a comedy about a group of small-time thieves and ne'er-do-wells who bungle an attempt to burgle a state-run pawn shop called Monte di Pieta'. It stars Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman, both of whose careers were helped considerably by the success of the film, along with Claudia Cardinale and Totò.
The film is currently distributed in Region 1 by The Criterion Collection and for the Italian market in Region 2 by 20th Century Fox.
A sequel directed by Nanni Loy followed in 1960, reuniting the entire cast aside from Mastroianni, entitled Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (released in English as Hold-up à la Milanaise).
Louis Malle directed an American remake called Crackers (1984).
A further sequel was directed by Amanzio Todini titled I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1987). It was released on DVD in the United States as Big Deal On Madonna Street - 20 Years Later by Koch Lorber.
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