Don Camillo's Last Round


Don Camillo's Last Round is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. The French title is La grande bagarre de Don Camillo and the Italian title is Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone. It was the third of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town. The film had 5,087,231 admissions in France.

Plot

In the small town of Brescello,skirmishes are continuing between the parish priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. After staging a theft of Don Camillo's prized chickens in retribution for a political prank pulled by the priest, Peppone decides to enter the big time of politics by standing for national senator. Peppone has been assisted by a winsome young lady comrade sent from the big city to assist him, but the mayor's wife - suspecting more - complains to Don Camillo, who endeavours to remedy the threatened domestic breakdown.

Cast