Il terribile ispettore

46:05 minutes

In 1969 Paolo Villaggio was well known to television audiences as Professor Kranz and his camel stuffed animals, a grotesque character with hat and tails in the program "Quelli della Domenica.” "The Terrible Inspector" was his second film after his debut on the cinemas in 1968 with the film "Eat it" ("Mangiala"). Fantozzi would become a national hit six years later, in 1975, but Villaggio’s comic vein had already exploded in the role of Paolo De Angelis, a young man willing to do anything to go up in his career. 

The great Charles Rustichelli composed the background music with a small orchestra, which highlights the terrible personality of the protagonist through scores ranging from funny to grotesque. Although the main character is an extremely grouchy, cunning man, he truly loves his girlfriend, played by a young and beautiful Agostina Belli. Rustichelli wrote a recurring romantic waltz motif that is very sentimental. During the opening credits there is an amusing nursery rhyme sung by a male voice and a choir, which seems to imitate the famous theme of Brancaleone (we’ve also included an alternative version in mono with vocals off allowing you to hear a delightful shake arrangement). For our CD, lasting a total of 46:05 minutes, we have used the stereo master tapes of the recording session.

Director and Cast: 
Directed in 1969 by Mario Amendola. Starring:  Paolo Villaggio, Agostina Belli, Francesco Mulè, Didi Perego, Nino Besozzi, Carlo Campanini, Wilma Casagrande, Umberto D'Orsi, Elio Crovetto, Cristina Fassi, Janine Gaffel, Gianni Pulone, Augusta Soprani, Elio Veller, Luciana Turina.
Plot:

Paolo De Angelis, a simple porter in a hospital, was fired for carrying out the doctors’ activities without permission. His ambition is to become a doctor, despite not graduating or having any degrees.  He even goes against the advice of his young girlfriend and tries to find new ways to enter this career. With some nerve and by lying he is able to get into the National Health Service by getting his hands on a copy of a graduation certificate from a person with the same name. He is hired as a doctor and makes himself known for his uncompromising honesty so the central management starts to think more highly of him. When he discovers his manager is scamming the National Health Service, he cleverly steals a large sum of money out of the scam and reports his manager to the directors. His manager gets fired and he receives a lavish prize for his silence.  Paolo is still not satisfied, so thanks to a congressman he knows, he becomes a leader in his party and becomes a candidate in the elections. Eventually the real doctor De Angelis finds him out but he is told to keep silent in order to avoid a scandal. Paolo marries the ugly daughter of an industrialist who can help him rise to power.