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SISSIGNORE (1969)
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi
Director: Ugo Tognazzi
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A 1969 comedy drama named 'Sissignore' ('yes sir') was released, directed and starred by Ugo Tognazzi,one of the great actors of Italian cinema belonging to the same generation of Sordi, Gassman and De Sica.
The movie opens with Oscar sitting in the passenger's seat of a yellow Miura P400 while his boss enjoys driving the car along the twisty coastal road that faces the tirrenian sea of central Italy. During this run the man eventually becomes engaged in a road duel with a red Ferrari 250 California SWB driven by a beautifull woman, and a dangerous manouvre will cause a bus full of japanese tourist to break the barriers and crash several meter down on the rocky shore.
This situation comedy finds a chauffeur taking the rap for his wealthy industrialist boss for a traffic accident. To add injury to insult, the driver discovers on his wedding night that he is married to his boss' mistress as well. Oscar (Ugo Tognazzi) is the little man caught in a world of high-powered moguls who can buy their way out of any problem. Oscar takes the fall and while already doing time, he receives another prison sentence for involvement in a shipbuilding scam. He also discovers to his chagrin that his wife and his boss are expecting a child together in this satire of the rich and privileged elite versus the common man.
It is not known if there are any other appearances of lamborghinis in the rest of the film.
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