The movie was released in 1961, but was titled as Totòtruffa '62 in order to avoid the 100th year of unified Italy to be linked to a story aboit frauds.
The most famous scene is the one when Antonio Peluffo ( Totò ) tries to sell the Trevi Fountain to an Italian-American tourist Decio Cavallo ( Ugo D'Alessio ). After that, when a similar fraud occurs in real life, Italian medias always refer to this movie when reporting it in the news. The fountain was chosen for the scene following the popularity of Anita Ekberg's scene in La dolce vita (1960).
In the scene where Antonio Peluffo ( Totò ) and Camillo ( Nino Taranto ) are dressed up as community technicians in front of a restaurant, one of the cars parked behind them is Totò's real private car, a 1954 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. The car, which was customized by same Totò, starred also in Des oiseaux, petits et gros (1966). As of 2020 it's part of a private collection.
Italian censorship visa # 35327 delivered on 7-8-1961.