Jailbreak

A cavallo dela tigre, feature film, 1961.

DIRECTED BY: Luigi Comencini

Jailbreak

CAST:
Nino Manfredi (Giacinto Rossi),
Mario Adorf (Mario Tagliabue),
Valeria Moriconi (Ileana Rossi),
Gian Maria Volonté (Papaleo),
Raymond Bussières

SCRIPT:
Luigi Comencini,
Agenore Incrocci,
Mario Monicelli,
Furio Scarpelli

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Aldo Scavarda

Synopsis:
Poverty, bad choices and his own clumsiness bring taxi driver Giacinto Rossi to jail. Serving a sentence for theft, he meets three prisoners who are planning to escape. Since his sentence is shorter; he initially doesn't want to join them. But circumstances force him to change his mind and he successfully escapes with them. As a criminal on the run, he is planning to leave the country illegally, but has no money. He turns to his wife, who is now living with another man, in the hope she would help him.

b/w, digital, 120 min