Il mistero di Bellavista

Il mistero di Bellavista
Il mistero di Bellavista
Directed by	Luciano De Crescenzo
Written by	Luciano De Crescenzo; Riccardo Pazzaglia
Story by	Luciano De Crescenzo
Starring	Luciano De Crescenzo; Marina Confalone
Cinematography	Sebastiano Celeste
Edited by	Anna Napoli
Music by	Renzo Arbore; Claudio Mattone
Production; company	Eidoscope International
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	1985;
Language	Italian

Il mistero di Bellavista (also known as Bellavista's Mystery and The Mystery of Bellavista) is a 1985 Italian comedy film written, directed and starring Luciano De Crescenzo.^[2]^[3]

Plot[]

From the terrace of his building Professor Bellavista is observing Halley's comet. The goalkeeper Salvatore and his friend Saverio, instead of framing the comet, mistakenly point the telescope lens towards the window of an apartment in the opposite building, believing they are witnessing the murder of Mrs. Jolanda, a second-hand clothing dealer. Once on the spot, the mistress of the suspect apartment, a fur trafficker, is actually missing, leaving the ragù on the fire, even if the body is not found.

The group, together with other acquaintances, begins to privately investigate the crime, stumbling upon rather original subjects including a couple of elderly sisters who, to avoid eviction, pretend to have a crazy nephew at home, a decayed noble art expert who with the complicity of his wife he organizes dramas in order to sell fake paintings of value, until he runs into the Italian-American furrier Frank Amodio, a shady trafficker and lover of the missing lady.

Thanks to him, Bellavista's son-in-law who emigrated to the North finds his first buyer for a nuclear shelter, and it turns out that the missing lady had actually left suddenly.

Cast[]

Luciano De Crescenzo as Professor Gennaro Bellavista
Sergio Solli as Saverio
Benedetto Casillo as Salvatore
Marina Confalone as Rachelina
Renato Scarpa as Dr. Cazzaniga
Andy Luotto as Frank Amodio
Marisa Laurito as Marquise Marisa Buonajuto di Pontecagnano
Riccardo Pazzaglia as Marquis Filiberto Buonajuto di Pontecagnano
Nuccia Fumo as Mrs. Carmelina Finizio
Nunzia Fumo as Mrs. Camilla Finizio
Gerardo Scala as Luigino
Renato Rutigliano as Capuozzo
Lucio Allocca as Mercalli
Geppy Gleijeses as Giorgio
Luigi Uzzo as Armando
Max Turilli as Frank Footter

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Il mistero di Bellavista (1985)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini. Il Morandini 2011. Dizionario dei film. Zanichelli, 2010. ISBN 8808227227.