| The Payoff | |
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 Theatrical release poster byRenato Casaro | |
| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Written by | Attilio Veraldi Dino Maiuri Massimo De Rita Luciano De Crescenzo Elvio Porta |
| Starring | Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Paolo Stoppa |
| Cinematography | Luigi Kuveiller |
| Edited by | Amedeo Salfa[1] |
| Music by | Pino Daniele |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists Europa |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Payoff (Italian:La mazzetta) is an Italiancrime comedy film directed in 1978 bySergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writerAttilio Veraldi.[2]
Following the commercial success of the movie it was planned a movie-adaptation from the Veraldi's second novel based on the character of Sasà Jovine,L'uomo di conseguenza (1978), still directed by Sergio Corbucci and starred byMarcello Mastroianni in the role of Jovine. After a series of meetings Mastroianni declined: he was not enthusiast to resume a character already successfully performed byNino Manfredi and the plot of the sequel involved incest, a scabrous subject he had treated the same year in the movieStay As You Are. The production then decided to make him play a story with a tone more similar toLa mazzetta but not based on any novel,Neapolitan Mystery.[3]
Attilio Veraldi.La mazzetta. Rizzoli, 1976.
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