"From trade-union politics let's go to the cultural page" "In recent days, news broke about a sensational discovery happened in Palermo" "To find out more let's watch the following report our contributor Rosolino Pizzuto let's watch the shot" "It's an honour for me to have a great poet like you dear Goethe" "The honour is all mine, dear Piazzi." "Danke schoen!" "In recent days they have found some film spools of 'The return of Cagliostro' a legendary film which for more than half century ago they dreamt it existed" "They were lying in a pile of junk in a small second-hand shop in Ballarò" "A teacher found them by true coincidence, his name being Ernesto Mascellaro" "Professor, did you ever thought that these spools contained a film regarded as a cult by every cinema-lover?" "Frankly no." "I thought it was an amateur film" "Instead?" "Instead I consulted a friend who is a cinema critic" "Doctor Gregorio Napoli who told me he made some research and discovered that it's the film 'The return of Cagliostro'" "But have you ever heard about this film and the old Sicilian cinema?" "No." "I think those names are so old that anyone forgot about them" "Obviously our pleasant professor doesn't know that in Sicilia soon after the Lumière invention were active some cinematographic societies" "Indeed for more than 30 years between Palermo e Catania, many films were made, outcome of the efforts by men, artists and benefactors who nurtured the dream to make Sicily the capital of Italian cinema" "The film that you're going to see tells the story of 'The return of Cagliostro' and of the Sicilian cinematographic society that produced it" "This is our sincere tribute to those pioneers of Sicilian cinema whose name today fell into oblivion" "Doctor Napoli?" "I'm listening!" "But how was the Sicialian cinema society born?" "The name of Trinacria is striclty linked to those who founded it the brothers Carmelo e Salvatore La Marca" "They were 2 craftmen specialized in building sacred statues and furnishings which they sold to churches" "We are here, more than half a century laterin their workshop" "A decaying builiding left in the deepest deterioration" "Totally unknown today" "There's also a small flock, a flock of skimpy sheep" "And I ask myself, I ask you if these sheep can be taken as the symbol of contemporary Italian cinema" "What do you think?" "Napoli, but are you provoking?" "Would you take it home?" "Father, you're right, but I have got nothing to do with it" "It's useless getting angry at me, I'm the least important person" "Fuck, what is it bothering up your arse!" "I'm doing the counting!" "What's all this rackage?" "To me you are all the same It's a disgrace" "He's tormenting me since 3 hours I've got nothing to do with it" "Ginetto!" "What's all this hubbub?" "Ginetto!" "Uncle Totò, you're right." "But there's a small problem with father Lo Bue" "Can you come a minute?" "Goodmorning father Lo Bue" "Goodmorning my arse, uncle Totò." "Do you call this goodmorning?" "Ginetto, go back to work" "What's wrong father Lo Bue?" "All looks fine to me" "Uncle Totò, can't you see what's wrong?" "No really" "Put eyeglasses on" "I don't see anything" "Look better" "I'm looking" " Carmelo!" " Coming!" "Don't worry father Lo Bue, I'll sorti it out" "Take it" "My brother Sal" "Goodmorning gentlemen, can I be of any service to you?" "Carmelo, the statue" "It's beautiful, it's very beautiful" "Tell me something are you really a fool or do you pretend it in order not to pay?" "I'm sorry father Lo Bue, without lacking in respect say, but are you trying to provoke me?" "I mean, just to understand!" "I won't tell you what happened when we put it in the courtyard of the parish youth club" "What happened Mrs Vaccaro?" "Miss, please" "I beg your pardon, Miss" "What happened was, Mr La Marca that many young boys and girls laid their innocent looks on this..." "on this obscenity." "That's what happened" "Pardon me, I don't understand, say, what's the problem?" "Carmelo, this is the problem" "You see, besides, after all, it's all proportioneted" "After all it's not a child." "It's a young man" "This is true too, father Lo Bue" "Anyway Mr La Marca, this is not gonna end here" "I will talk to father Vitellaro, and however it ends it ends" "Mrs Vacaro" "Miss, father Lo Bue, Miss" "Miss..." "Vaccaro" "Alleluia, alleluia." "The Lord is great, The Lord is good." "Alleluia" "You're good" "I say, have you got tram tickets into your brain?" "Brother" "You've got to be careful!" "Carmelo do you hear me?" "Carmelo" "Totò fuck, she's so beautiful..." "I'd eat her" "Carmeloo" "Carmelo, it'd be wonderful if, we could make a film with someone like her" "A dream" "Goodday" "To the cardinal sent me..." "to the..." "Sucante said... he has to speak it with you" "Sucante (THE CARDINAL)" "Cardinal... yes has to speak with you... has to speak with you immediately" "Sucante" "Who is this Cardinal?" "The Cardinal has to speak with you, can't speak us... has to speak about you the Cardinal immediately... thanks thanks...thanks" "sucato..." "Com'in" "I'm waiting for the Da Mancia brothers... out" "I am father Bernardo" "I came to bring a song of hope" "that I like a lot thanks... thanks" "Thanks all right I got it." "Get the fuck off my face and let them in thanks... thanks...thanks" "Of hope... thanks" "Go away!" "Please come on in!" "It's a true pleasure to see you again, your Eminence" "I beg your pardon" "And most of all to revere the beauty and the grace of your mother" "Yours servants" "Dear friends, I called you..." "MOTHER (fart)" "MOTHER (fart)" "Out of the way, old scabby one" "You know I like to stay with you Vincenzino (little Vincenzo)" "Don't you see I'm making a shawl for you." "Do you like it?" "You are disgusting, and the shawl too" "Your Eminence, there's only one mother" "Dear friends I called you to give you the Gospel" "Finally today your dream becomes true" "Thanks to the fraternal commitment of these friends, that I'm going to introduce you, the cinematographic Trinacria is a reality" "Tahnks..." "Eminence, thanks, Eminence You are a true saint." "Thanks" "It's no me who you're supposed to thank but... these very important and generous friends" "The eminent honourable Porcaro," "Dott." "Conigliaro, general director of Bank of Sicily, who granted you a big loan to start the cinematographic Trinacria" "I don't know who the other two are" "You shouldn't thank us" "We've invested in this company giving the highest trust to Your Eminence, rather, I say, Cardinal I'd like to talk to you in private with our friends' permission" "Come along, Porcaro" "Eminence?" "Don't worry about it." "What do you want to tell me?" "Eminence, we always highly trusted you but are you sure that these two are able to run a film company?" "Have you taken a good look?" "Forget it, we are stubborn" "Carmelo, Salvatore tell about your idea to the honourable Porcaro" "Eminence," "Honourable...it was always our dream to make films" "And making films in our land, here, in our beautiful Sicily" "And this sun, this sea, this light nobody ever cared to really do it" "Our motherland, enough now, enough" "We Sicilians have got a pride that nobody can take away" "Eminence, all is well what ends well" "Allow me, a quick one" "The wolf has got his measure too." "Do you know what is it?" "No!" "A sheepy sky" "Restivo?" "Yes, Eminence" "I'm vomiting" "The debut opera film that starts the Trinacria is 'The life of S. Rosalia' directed by the good Ermete Patricola" "A cineaste, who evolved making films of different genre" "About this film, made in 1947, I keep a rare finding" "A poster I'm gonna show you." "Here you go" "Congratulations, dott." "Napoli." "It's really beautiful" "Thanks S. Rosalia." "I beg you to heal..." "I'm feeling sick... everybody..." "Stop" "Well done." "An applause to everybody, operator, film, videocamera, machinist, sound" "Really good" "And with a voice, say, full of emotion" "I guarantee you, with the birth of the cinematographic Trinacria" "Cinecittà will be scared" "Bravo!" "Thank you, thanks." "The La Marca brothers, here present, guarantee you, assure you, with the help of Cardinal Sucato, his Eminence, that we'll be second to none" "Hurray the Trinacria!" "Bless!" "Hurray to S. Rosalia." "Hurray" "I've got with me, an article printed on the daily paper "L'Ora" dated 15/10/1947" "Do you know what it says?" "No really" "Here, I'll tell you." "Trinacria disappointing." "A failure" "I ask myself, what's the need of resuming such dirty things?" "They've got nothing to do with cinema" "Dear Saint!" "Palermo is scourged by the plague" "Our city." "What are we supposed to do?" "What do we have to do?" "Hunter, go to Palermo and bring the cardinal here" "Take these bones to heal all Palermo" "I'm going, I'm going" "Go away!" "S. Rosalia grant me a favour" "Long live Palermo and S. Rosalia" "S. Rosalia grant a favour to me and all my family" "I've got one only child, a soldier, who went to war." "Let him come back alive" "Thank you my saint, thank you Thank you my saint, thank you" "You granted me this favour, to me and to all my family, to all Palermo" "My dear saint, you granted a favour to my children." "Thank you my dear saint" "People of Palermo, quiet." "Go home 'cause I granted a miracle" "Eminence, let me tell you that I'm speechless" "Honourable Porcaro, what do you mean?" "Can't you see it's a masterpiece?" "...piece" "Eminence, I beg your pardon, a true example of surreal cinema" "My cute son, my cute son." "My cute son" "Shut up!" "Restivo?" "Yes, your Eminence" "What were you saying?" "Surreal, your Eminence" "Surreal my cock" "And don't forget to bring the La Marca brothers tomorrow morning" "Did you understand?" "Dott." "Conigliaro, you are the son of the then general director of Bank of Sicily" "Giacomo Conigliaro." "We can say that your father contributed decisively to the birth of the cinematographic Trinacria?" "I've got to tell you that for many years in my house, the production of the so called film" "'The life of S. Rosalia' was a cause of general dread" "Can we say that your father soon regreted about that financing?" "I can tell you more, I still see my dad's good soul telling me how deeply disgusted he was watching that film" "Really?" "Yes, he, until the last days of his life felt ashamed for having contributed decisively, unfortunately, to the birth of this Trinacria" "Madam, did your husband use to make films?" "He used to make films but he suffered a lot for his passion toward cinema and he went through bad times" "And then he made the life of S. Rosalia" "He made the life of S. Rosalia." "Don't remind me 'cause it hurts too much" "And how did the film go?" "He made the film with great devotion" "But nobody appreciated it and he suffered so much and the Cardinal too gave him so much pain that he got unwell and died of a broken heart" "You've got to go" "And why do I have to go?" "I've got one son only, in America." "Go away!" "Where are you my son?" "Fuck, it's disgusting, uncle Pietro, we want the ticket money back" "What's your name, child?" "Gregorio" "Do you like the film?" "Nice" "Would you like a candy?" "Fuck off" "Have you ever heard about the Count of Cagliostro who was born around here?" "No" "Never heard?" "There's a house bearing his name, to his memory." "Don't you know him?" "Do you know where is Cagliostro's house?" "Go further down" "A bit further." "Thank you very much" "After many reserves, we arrived at the house where in 1743 the count of Cagliostro was born" "Napoli?" "Tell me" "How come the La Marcas after a countless series of flops made the Cagliostro's project?" "Actually, it's difficult going back to the origin of 'The return of Cagliostro'" "I can only venture an hypothesis" "Go ahead" "Probably they were struck, enchantered by the film 'Cagliostro' directed in 1949 by a Russian cineaste, Gregory Ratoff" "And played?" "and played by a corrupt, sulphureous, and unparalled Orson Welles" "The pain you're feeling will last a little bit long, you feel it's vanishing already" "Now you feel the pain going away, tell me that you feel the pain going away" "I have to declare beforehand that everything said, published, assumed until now about this event is highly approximate and inaccurate" "I can tell you that it was crucial the intervention of a person unknown by historians" "The baron Cammarata" "A man extremely fond of esotericism, magical arts, who intended to revalue the character of Cagliostro, vilified with the character played by Orson Wellles" "Are we joking, Ginetto?" "This company is 100 years old and a filth like this was never made" "This is not the Madonna, Ginetto." "This is Tarzan's monkey" "Uncle Totò, you hurt me in my intimacy." "This is my mother" "Your mother?" "Tarzan's monkey?" "Are you drunk, Ginetto?" "Your brother told me to make the sorrow face of Madonna" "He says it's the new realism" "It's... the new realism, Ginetto." "My mother, uncle Totò, is lying on a bed since two years without being able to move" "Your brother told me: copy your mother's face and fit it to Madonna" "Not only I make things as you comand but I also have to take scorn" "Therefore my mother looks like Tarzan's monkey?" "Uncle Totò" "Ginetto?" "Chief" "Go to work" "We kiss your hands (goodbye)" "You're right father Camarda Fuck she's really ugly!" "Since we've put it near the altar the church is empty." "Nobody is coming" "Surely" "Totò?" "Carmelo, camorria!" "Totò, my brother, 'the uncle from America' the great success announced by Trinacria at Vittoria cinema from the public request after two day it was taken away" "After two days?" "And viewers?" "Fifty?" "Five" "Whom four were invited" "And the other one was sleeping as usual" "Totò, I've got to tell you:" "The uncle of this big..." "Carmelo!" "Father Camarda is here" "Some dignity!" "But father Camarda is part of the family" "Do you know what's it like to pawn even the nails on the walls!" "Totò, today we did tombola" "Goodmorning" "I have to talk him, the Mr. Cardinal to Sucando" "You've got to talk to Mr. Ennio Cammarata, the baron" "Your Eminence, do you know the difference between a tyre and a woman?" "Get away, useless thing" "I summoned you to introduce my friend, the Baron" "Cammarata." "The greatest expert about the Count of Callosto" "Cagliostro, Eminence..." "Cagliostro" "All right, it's the same thing" "The man who will save the Trinacria that is, Eminence that is your arse!" "At this point of the story, the La Marcas received a great responsibility" "They had to find a director up to the task." "Who did they choose?" "The choice went for Pino Grisanti." "An honest artisan who was working for the Zagara film, competing against Trinacria" "Grisanti's leitmotif was without a doubt: "The invincible blessed Pauls"" "loosely based on Luigi Natoli's novel" "It's interesting because it shows a secret Palermo, an underground Palermo a Palermo loaded with those misteries, that develop later through the years which maybe afflict the Sicilian capital even today." "How can it be possible to call Pino Grisanti a director?" "Try to watch, if you manage, "The invincible blessed Pauls"" "Duke della Motta, you'll pay for your faults!" "Duke, are you ready to repent?" "Ah, ah, coward, I'm not scared of you." "I'm not afraid of someone who hides what do you mean?" "Show your snouts if you dare" "They even say that Natoli's descendents wanted to sue Grisanti and the Zagara Film like the press at that time shows" "The poetess Antonietta Scalisi Bonetti is the only authoress, known around who dedicated a monograph about the director Pino Grisanti." "Poetess?" "How can I help!" "How come did you devote a great deal of your life about studying this Sicilian director?" "Because I was always fascinated by this great creative genius" "A person, I'd say a personality..." "Would you know if Grisanti left a preliminary work for the film?" "Neither me nor anyone else, as long as I know, found any trace of a film-script, screenplay, rough draft or whatever." "Nothing" "However, however, witnesses at that time seem to say that for the whole month prior the shooting of the film both the La Marca brothers and the director Grisanti attended assiduously, by night, the Baron Cammarata's house" "Fucking lightning!" "Watch out for the thunder" "You should know, gentlemen, that I devoted my entire life to the study of the occult and to the exoteric sciences" "Exo?" "Terics" "Things of science, Carmelo" "Fondamental things." "And at the end of this long and hard path of studying and reseaching to which I devoted my best years" "I met him" "Him who?" "I beg your pardon, I'm very nervous" "Him who?" "The master." "He who with his powerful occult arts, more than anyone else, more than the same Merlin, got near the Prime Mover" "Fuck, what kind of bollocks" "Sorry?" "Nothing Mr. Baron" "I was saying that this Prime Mover was irresistibly fascinating" "Well, fascinating yes, but, if you allow me Mr. Baron, a bit difficult" "Surely gentlemen, I forgot that you are filmakers" "And that's why I searched for you,in order that, through the magic of the big screen also the mob can know the infinite virtues of the Count" "And honour him in the world without end" "Amen" "Amen" "I've got to tell you gentlemen, that in order for staging this film" "I sold everything I owned without any second thought" "May I say, Mr. Baron, you are an hero" "And we will do everything possible to make sure this film becomes a masterpiece that the world will remember forever" "Totò don't move" "I'm here, Carmelo." "I was sure I could count on you friends" "Polifemo, Polifemo" "Fucking hell, what a monster" "Who are these 3 pieces of shit." "Throw them out 'cause they stink" "Ehi!" "Baron." "I'll break your horns." "Cockholded and rotten" "Carmelo!" "Dont' you understand he's possessed by the spirit" "What spirit?" "The spirit of Cagliostro" "I'm going away." "He's bonkers" "Throw blood from your horns, son of a bitch" "Sit down idiot." "He has to give us the money." "Do you understand?" "The both of you disgust me" "Aye, you're nice instead!" "Look into the mirror, dog face" "One thing is sure gentlemen" "We should find an actor up to the task" "A true star" "Do you have someone in your mind already?" "In the past days the famous American star Erroll Douglas, arrived in Sicily" "He was welcomed by the producers Carmelo and Salvatore La Marca from the Trinacria and the director Pino Grisanti, the 3 of them major figures of the reviving Sicilian cinema" "Douglas was accompanied by his wife, the charming dancer Elisabeth Burnett" "Erroll Douglas will stay a few weeks in the sunny island to interpret the part of the legendary Cagliostro, character shown on the big screen last year already by the colleague Orson Welles" "Obviously there were also the admirers of the unforgettable hero of 'The Alamo', crowded around the actor for the due autograph" "The first shot of 'The return of Cagliostro', this is the film title, was made in front the most important Sicilian authorities and blessed by His Eminence the cardinal Vincenzo Sucato, Archibishop of Palermo" "There were many actors that the director Grisanti picked up from the streets" "What do these likable people expect from the cinema?" "That I, today, tomorrow, may become a great actor and go to Rome" "Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas..." "I am happy to work with the Trinacria" "And while the maestro stays apart thinking about the next shot the star doesn't hide his enthusiasm" "Best wishes to the future Hollywood and the Conca d'oro (Palermo's Valley)" "Erroll Douglas was one of Hollywood most versatile actors" "He had a fantastic careear playing the most diverse roles from noir to horror up to William Shakespeare" "Erroll Douglas landing in Palermo, in the Holy Year, is a man irreparably heading on the decline" "Only the whisky bottle is left as his only faithful partner" "But Hollywood wasn't cruel with its drunken sons nor his friend Robert Siodmak, kicked him up his arse sent them to scrap in Italy" "Erroll's manager, Vincent Cusumano, scraped up for him small roles in minor films" "The American B series becomes Z series in Italy" "Erroll, I'd like to introduce you to these friends" "They want to make a little Sicilian Hoollywood" "Mr Vincent, what did he tell us?" "That it's a very beautiful thing and that it'll have a great success" "Carmelo..." "In late spring of 1950, Pino Grisanti started the making of" "'The return of Cagliostro'" "With great excitement and some pride I'd like to show you the costume fittings of Erroll Douglas and some auditions by actors from Palermo picked up from the streets, who participated to the making of the film" "Erroll Douglas' auditions" "Giordano Carlo's audition" "The poetry I'm gonna to recite is by Giacomo Leopardi." "The title is "To the moon"" "Oh sweet moon, I remember now that last year..." "Granny, what a beautiful eyes you've got" "To look better at you" "What a nice little nose you've got" "To smell you better" "Granny what a big mouth you've got!" "Didn't you look at granpa's cock?" "Good evening." "I'm Wolfgang Goethe" "Mrs Burnett, what memories do you have about your staying in Palermo with Erroll Douglas, your husband?" "I remember very well." "How could I forget that trip, it was incredible." "I remember... those strange people, their strange way of living and those unuasual places" "In fact I was so struck that with my small videocamera," "I decided to film people, places and, obviously, Erroll" "I still keep the film in a safe place because it represents a very important and unusual part of my life" "The set was unbeliavable, the people were incredible." "I could not understand how people so incompetent could manage to make a film" "The director, his name was Grisanti, was bonkers!" "He was completely mad" "There were the producers then, or so called producers" "They were two brothers, La Marca" "They had no idea how to make a film" "I never saw anything to resemble this in America" "My husband Erroll was obviously disheartened by all of that because he was used to work with people who were real professionals" "He was at the top of the tree and it was humiliating for him being directed by someone like Grisanti" "Clearly Erroll was very depressed and I have to admit I was too" "I feel that the situation in Palermo speeded up the end of our marriage" "We've had... our problems in the past, Erroll was drinking a bit and we weren't very happy" "but the circumstance we found ourselves in Palermo made things worse and Erroll started drinking heavily and becoming ever more unhappy" "and I really feel that was the beginning of the end of our marriage" "The scene you're gonna see is set in the famous villa of monsters in Bagheria so called for the bizarre sculptures from 1700, placed outside the villa by its owner, the prince of Palagonia" "In here Grisanti pictures with audacious imagination that Cagliostro meets the great" "German poet Goethe and other renowed characters from Palermo, to propose to them an incredible experiment From "The return of Cagliostro" 1950" "Do the gentlemen wish something?" "No nothing, thanks Battista" "As you wish" "And yet it's like so, count of Cagliostro" "For example?" "They'd say what half of Europe says" "That you are a swindler" "Who dared waking us up from our eternal sleep?" "For this reason you will all die" "We'll suck your blood" "I'm scared, Count" "You're a piece of shit" "Miss Burnett, since the situation was so dramatic how come Douglas did not want to go back to America?" "I've asked myself the same question many times without finding an answer" "Often my husband used to say 'Liz, pack the lugguage, we're going back to America'" "I was going to prepare the lugguage and then nothing happened, we never left" "Danke schoen, herr Cagliostro" "I beg your pardon Count, but what could happen if we'd make a mistake?" "Piazzi, you are a scientist." "What do you think is it going to happen?" "Absolutely nothing" "aaahhhh..." "I am the mummy of Tutankan Damned you!" "How dare you waking me from my eternal sleep?" "You will all die for this" "You will all die!" "ahhhh...ahhh" "I don't understand what you're talking about" "No good, I don't understand" "What don't you understand, idiot." "Go back to America" "Pino?" "They come here to break our balls" "Oh!" "There's smoke, I can't breath in here Go to work" "Another moron coming to bust the balls" "Mr Douglas, will you please?" "At your disposal" "What happened?" "Nothing happened" "Is everything ok?" "Surely in this film Erroll Douglas was forced to perform for freaks, shrimps and monsters" "No monsters in the meaning of the hollywoodian ones actors of the same calibre of George Raft or Barbara Stanwyck whom with Douglas worked at the peak of his success" "The tragicomic apex of this cast is reached in the scene of the carriage where Pino Grisanti chosen to substitute Douglas to play the part of the astrophysicist Piazzi, such Carlo Giordano" "An actor literally able to talk only nonsense" "Look outside, sponger" "Tell me, what's so adventurous in going in the middle of the night to cave number 845 of one 485, 360, that everyone calls incorrectly witch?" "My dear Count...465, 865, 885, 750, 455..." "intellectual and spiritual may 850..." "Shut up, incoherent" "Nothing...450... nothing We've got to do it again" "Goodday" "Goodday, how can I help?" "I'm sorry, we're looking for a patient" "Where can we find him?" "You can find him in the nurse's room, ask over there, and they'll tell you" "Thanks" "You're welcome" "Godday" "Godday" "Listen, we're looking for an American patient, Mister Douglas" "Please" "Who is it?" "The actor" "Ah!" "The actor?" "The one who is always locked in his room and never wants to go out" "The one who always shouts" "Yes, he always shouts." "He's unbearable" "Listen, where can we find him?" "There's the manager" "Story goes that he's ospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in 1951 following a psychomotor agitation due to a commotion in an alcoholic individual" "Douglas was a person inclined to isolate himself and to place himself in rooms' corners" "Yet he was going around with an old wig trying to hypnotize, making tricks all over the psychiatric hospital" "Managing such a patient is also very difficult" "Bear in mind that he's very old" "He's also got dementia symptoms" "Therefore he can't control his impulses and can become aggressive against himself and against other patients" "We manage him with great difficulty and we are not able to engage" "Mr Douglas, do you hear me?" "Come out" "There are the guys from the tv" "It was fault of that damned set" "I can't tell you anything about the incident 'cause I left to the States a few days before" "the situation was driving me crazy and I was gonna have a nervous breakdown" "aaahhhhh" "Stop rolling" "What happened?" "He's all broken!" "Pasquale, stop everything" "To your service, professor" "Let me get upstairs, 'cause these ones are all lost" "Sometimes destiny can be particularly cruel toward men keeping for them a nasty fate, no doubt that the poor Erroll Douglas was one of those men" "I'd like that you'd put aside the story told up to now and would listen another one" "A story maybe less heroic and adventurous but probably closer to the truth and most of all more informative regarding the human nature" "The time when the Trinacria made its films was a mysterious and dark period for Sicily" "Those were the years of separatism and of Giuliano's banditry and most of all of the renewed harmony between the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the American Cosa Nostra" "The author, the mastermind of such a great work was the greatest genius of organized crime" "Salvatore Lucania" "He doesn't ring a bell, doesn't he?" "And you are right" "Because the whole world knows him by the name of Lucky Luciano" "Well then, to sum up" "First: behind the Trinacria there was Lucky Luciano" "Second:" "Luciano's righthand was the enlightned Cardinal Sucato who with his powerful connections assured any kind of support for the Trinacria" "Third: also the La Marca brothers, as strange it may seem were men of honour since 1937" "Fourth: the same goes for the genius of Sicilian cinema Pino Grisanti" "A paranoic with persecution mania who was never a man of honour though" "Fifth: here is Vincent Cusumano Erroll Douglas' manager" "The man who brought to Sicily the ex hollywood divo, ruining him forever" "John Cusumano's nephew, trusted deputy of Luciano, Vincent owned more than just a favor to his powerful boss who, in various occasions helped him to come out of bad situations linked to his gambling debts" "I repeat it, sometimes destiny is particularly cruel against some men" "When in autumn 1949, Cusumano took Erroll Douglas to Luciano in his magnificent house, Erroll could have never imagined that day would have been for him the beginning of his end" "This way" "Cuckolded" "It's truly admirable the zeal with which those two are preparing" "Mr Douglas' ruin" "Rolling 81-1 first" "Action" "A few more seconds, and our hero,the powerful Cagliostro will break right here" "aaahhhhh..." "Mr Douglas, have you broken anything?" "Do you need help?" "Cuckold, let's take him to the hospital" "Mamma mia!" "I feel sorry for him" "Mr Douglas, how are you?" "Did you hurt yourself?" "Shall we take him to the hospital?" "Shall we take him to the hospital?" "Human imbecility makes more victims than the Messina's earthquake" "You're right." "It' just like that" "Madonna of Carmine." "I've got to really change barber" "Peppino, total turn" "Let's see together how this bad story ends" "The fall was really bad" "The most powerful magician in Europe is all broken" "Poor thing, how much he suffers" "But he's lucky in disgrace though" "Are you kidding him?" "I'm telling the truth" "Because if he'd know what's happeing over there his suffering would be much worse" "Be aware yourselves how miserable and vultures the so called human beings are" "Maestro Grisanti, the genious of Trinacria" "Totò, oh my brother, I'll tell you more, the Vittorio de Sica of my cock" "Will you shut up 'cause you're making my brain rot." "You've got to calm down" "Ah!" "Have I?" "This thief and pimp ruined my life and I'm supposed to calm down" "Do you know when I calm down?" "As soon as I'll eat his throat" "Piece of shit" "Pour blood out of your horns, idiot" "Your stock is foolish" "Who the fuck is this Cagliostro?" "Fuck, but where are we, among the Mao Mao?" "And you, do you think to be smarter than him?" "Poor thing, he woke him up with all this shouting" "He's throwing out his soul Doesn't he make pity?" "Him pity?" "And now that his godfather comes and bugger us" "None would feel sorry fur us?" "Ain'it?" "No, because the arse is ours" "Gentlemen, I'd have a suggestion" "Let's be clear my horse is lamed..." "Sorry, what horse are you talking about?" "The American donkey, half-wit" "I'll make you swallow the toupee idiot from the war" "Will you shut up and let him talk?" "please..." "Thank you." "As it is now I don't have any use of him" "What a shame" "Life goes on." "But he had the misfortune of meeting three bunglers like you" "Vincent, easy, Eh!" "I call people with their real names" "But I can give you the chance to save your arse" "How?" "Simple!" "It'll be me who will tell my godfather, my godfather..." "Mr Luciano?" "Yeah!" "A saint of a man" "I was saying I'll tell him personally how things went" "I'll tell him that poor Erroll, more pissed than ever, fell off the window during a break." "He'll believe me" "Thanks, Vicè, thank you." "Thanks from the bottom of my heart." "Thanks" "Mr Vincent, forgive me if I judged you wrongly" "Dickheads both of you Didn't you understand what his point is?" "A cuckhold (man of shit)" "But sharper than you both" "And who's got it?" "Uncle Vincenzo, we haven't even got eyes left to cry" "500... dollars?" "50.000 dollars!" "We might as well go directly to Uncle Luciano." "Dead for dead..." "That's your buisness." "It's me who's risking" "What then?" "All right, what can we do?" "Ok!" "But you are a bit heavy, Mr. Vincent" "Will you tell me who is this cuckhold of Cagliostro?" "Santino don't let anyone disturbing us, I urge you" "Today we are only for the present friends" "What's wrong Vincenzo, don't you like it?" "When have you ever refused spaghetti with tomato?" "What's wrong?" "Are you feeling ill?" "Is anything bothering you?" "Talk to your friends" "Nothing don Salvatore." "All is fine." "I'm not hungry." "There's no problem" "How can you eat uncle Totò?" "After a dear friend suffered a bad accident how can he eat?" "His stomach is blocked." "Isn't it true Vincenzo?" "Certainly a friend is like a great treasure" "You've got to protect and look after him" "Without any distraction ever" "Let's have a toast in the meantime." "Cheers Vicè" "Surely a lunch a bit heavy for Mr Cusumano" "Unfortunately also on the idyll between Sucato and the Lumière of Sicilian cinema the curtain are about to falls" "A bit of patience, cinema is tiring" "ln nomine Patri, fill et spiritu santi" "What are your sins my son?" "Out of the way" "Father, I want to get rid of a terrible secret" "What's this stink?" "It smells like goat's?" "Yeah, it's unbearable" "I can't get rid of you." "Don't worry, carry on" "The American got badly hurt" "Is he dead?" "No, but he's all broken" "Whose fault?" "It's La Marca's, who else?" "And you've got nothing to do with it?" "Me?" "I'm innocent like a little lamb" "Pinò?" "Eh?" "What did you come for?" "I'd like you could talk to the "friends"" "letting them know that I've nothing to do with what happened" "You want to save your arse?" "Don't you?" "It's human, His Eminence." "And I promise if you grant me the favour I'll go on pilgrimage to S. Rosalia" "Vincenzino do him that favor Don't be always bad" "Get out damned oldie, I can't stand you 'cause you stink" "Restivo?" "Out of the way" "Did you like Grisanti's joke?" "If you allow me, Eminence, I found it a bit tasteless" "Pinò?" "Padre Restivo thinks that your story is a bit tasteless" "Taste?" "Less" "Get your arm off my head" "Pinò there's nothing to do" "Mamma mia, what horrible carts" "Poor fools, they don't know that their Vincent Cusumano the favourite of the powerful Lucky Luciano won't be able to help them" "And they will wait, and wait will wait" "Carmelo, there's something going around me" "Totò, what is it going around you?" "My cock is going around" "American, I and my brother are sorry" "I and my brother are two shits but we've got to leave you here" "If we don't do it they're gonna make our arse like a mountain (heavy beatings)" "I'm going Pippino." "Goodbye" "I'm sorry Excellence if I'm coming to disturb you in such a happy moment" "You can't dance" "What are you saying my son" "You can't dance, you look like a dead pussycat" "What are you talking about my son?" "that you are disgusting" "Eminence" "How can I help Baron?" "Eminence, I'd like to ask if you know anything about the film shooting" "I haven't seen any of La marca's brothers" "What film are you talking about?" "What do you mean, Eminence, what film?" "The film about Cagliostro" "The film I financed and that you standed as a guarantor" "Restivo!" "What film is he talking about?" "Baron, don't bust my balls" "What are you saying my son?" "Shut up shity bitch" "Poor baron, he doesn't know yet that his money went completely lost" "Poor baron cheated by these swindlers" "Pretty soon he'll be locked into a madhouse by a greedy nephew" "And he'll die broken and totally mad" "After all the enlightned and noble cardinal Sucato won't survive long the unlucky Cammarata" "Well dear friends, here ends the tragic story of Trinacria and the men who were involved in it" "Men who were, without a doubt, incapable, incompetent and almost always true rogues" "In spite of all of that, I feel particularly sorry for these men" "I'll tell you more, even liking Why?" "Frankly I wouldn't know how to answer you" "Who knows, maybe because loosers give us a sort of attraction" "A sense of pity" "Who can tell how human soul works" "Ah!" "I forgot, and the La Marca brothers?" "Nobody knew anything" "I think that since a while they went high, very high" "Where they eventually produce succesfull films" "Maybe" "They know how miracolous they are" "Ah, maestro, we forgot." "There'd be a minor independent producer who would like to retake the filming of 'The return of Cagliostro' would you be interested by any chance?" "Subtitles by Akum (KG)"