The Payoff (1978)

Name: The Payoff
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Released: 1978-03-17
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Nino Manfredi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito, Gennaro Di Napoli

Crime Comedy

Director: Sergio Corbucci

Cast: Nino Manfredi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito, Gennaro Di Napoli

7.3

Runtime110 min

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Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.

Critical Reception & Ratings

The Payoff (1978) directed by Sergio Corbucci has received a positive critical reception, with an IMDb rating of 7.3/10 indicating strong audience approval. The crime comedy film follows a self-styled lawyer who gets caught up in a spiral of homicides after being offered a large bribe to search for a client's missing daughter.

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The Payoff is an Italian crime comedy film directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.