On the Tiger's Back

Original title: A cavallo della tigre

105 minutes • 1961 • 7.2 Score

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.

Luigi Comencini

Director

Drama

Comedy

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