Le retour de Don Camillo (1953)

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Fernandel

Don Camillo

Gino Cervi

Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

Arturo Bragaglia

Il cantoniere

Édouard Delmont

Il dottor Spiletti

Alexandre Rignault

Franceso 'Nero' Gallini

Saro Urzì

Brusco - il barbiere

Thomy Bourdelle

Cagnola

Manuel Gary

Il delegato

Claudy Chapeland

Beppo Bottazzi

Giovanni Onorato

Leda Gloria

Maria Bottazzi

Tony Jacquot

Don Pietro

Lia Di Leo

La maestrina

Marco Tulli

Lo Smilzo

Jean Debucourt

Jésus
(voice)

Enzo Staiola

Mario Cagnola

Miranda Campa

La signora Spiletti

Charles Vissières

Il vescovo
(as Charles Vissière)

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Trivia
Austrian actress Maria Schell was not dubbed in the film. She was in fact fluent in French having spent part of her youth in French-speaking Switzerland.

Goofs
Pay close attention to Don Camillo's hand with the glass of castor oil in the "Castor Oil" scene. He pours what is clearly a viscous, oily liquid into the glass. Before drinking however, his hand drops out of view and when he puts the glass to his mouth the liquid is all of a sudden clear water. Apparently drinking the castor oil for real was one step too far.

Alternate versions
Two versions of the film were shot: one in Italian, one in French.

Connections
Followed by La grande bagarre de Don Camillo (1955)

Watch it again and again and again...

At home we never tire of this, perhaps the best of the Don Camillo series. The characters are so perfectly drawn and the black and white photography is much more dramatic than colour! It gives a very true-to-life picture of the social and political scene in post-war Italy, with just enough exaggeration to have the spectators rolling in the aisles.