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He Who Hesitates Is Lost is a italien film of genre Comedy directed by Sergio Corbucci with Totò
He Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960)
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Add to a movie listChi si ferma è perduto (literally Who hesitates is lost) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci.
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Peppino and Antonio are two bungling accountants of a branch of Naples, widely criticized and reprimanded by their superior, which threatens to confine them in Sardinia. Antonio and Peppino know well what awaits them: the service of branches in that place is highly poor and so the two do anything to save himself. But suddenly their upper dies, and so in the accounting of Naples are locked in a battle between all the accountants to win the sympathy of the new substitute-upper.Actors
Totò
(Antonio Guardalavecchia)
Peppino De Filippo
(Giuseppe Colabona)
Aroldo Tieri
(Matteo Rossi)
Luigi De Filippo
(Donato Cavallo)
Alberto Lionello
(Mario Rossi)
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