Million Dollar Eel

May 6, 1971

1h 49m

★ 0.0

Overview

An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler (Toffolo).

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Mega Film

Colt Produzioni Cinematografiche

Million Dollar Eel Trailers

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Cast

Margherita 'Tina' Tellini

Ottavia Piccolo

Giovanni Boscolo 'Bissa'

Lino Toffolo

Lino

Rodolfo Baldini

Nane Mora - the Guardiapesca

Mario Adorf

Countess Spodani

Senta Berger

Vasco

Gabriele Ferzetti

Verzini

Franco Marletta

Priest

Daniele Dublino

Barman

Ricky Gianco

Inspector Cesca

Sergio Cesca

Tinas Class Companion

Carla Mancini

Luciano Spadoni

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