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The Payoff

The Payoff

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 17, 1978

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Crime, Comedy

User Score

64%

Original Title

La mazzetta

Production Companies

Filmauro

Director

Sergio Corbucci

Description

Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.