Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina

Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina
Directed by	Camillo Mastrocinque
Produced by	Isidoro Broggi Renato Libassi
Written by	Nicola Manzari Edoardo Anton Sandro Continenza Francesco Thellung
Starring	Totò Peppino De Filippo Dorian Gray Teddy Reno
Music by	Pippo Barzizza Lelio Luttazzi Totò
Cinematography	Mario Albertelli, Claudio Cirillo
Edited by	Gisa Radicchi Levi
Production company	D.D.L.
Release date	1956
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	1,751,000,000 Italian lire

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy (originally Totò, Peppino e... la malafemmina) is an Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque in 1956. It stars the comedy duo of Totò and Peppino De Filippo. The film also stars the popular singer Teddy Reno, and features Reno singing some of his songs as well as Malafemmena, Totò's most famous work as a songwriter.

It was the top-grossing movie of the year in Italy with a 1,751,000,000 Italian lire revenue (about 40 million Euro in 2009).

The brothers Antonio (Totò) and Peppino (Peppino De Filippo) Caponi are boorish landowners living in southern Italy. Antonio is lavish and steals his stingy brother's money. Gianni (Teddy Reno), their sister Lucia (Vittoria Crispo)'s son, is studying medicine in Naples, when he falls in love with Marisa (Dorian Gray), a revue dancer, and follows her to Milan.

The news is broken to the family with an anonymous letter, and the three brothers travel to Milan in an attempt to stop the relationship, which they consider dangerous. Antonio and Peppino try to bribe Marisa away from Gianni but he woos her back by moving her to tears with the song "Malafemmina", and Lucia realizes that she is a good girl. In the end, she leaves the revue world, moves to their village and marries Gianni.

Memorable in the history of comedy films is the scene in the movie where Toto and Peppino (the Capone brothers) have to write a simple letter to be sent to his grandson. Unfortunately for two uneducated peasants and how they use this is almost impossible. In fact, everything that the two brothers should write to his girlfriend's nephew concerns a notice to him to let the boy alone in order to continue his studies. Mistaking it for roughly a prostitute, however, the two brothers write that with 700,000 lire the girl can reward yourself for lost time with their grandson.
Yet Toto, who is believed that most awake, does not realize the severity of grammatical errors that creates the dictate of simple sentences that are anything but pure Italian.
The text of the letter says: