Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

====Don Camillo and Peppone (1950s–1980s)====
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[[File:Don Camillo Peppone il ritorno.jpg|thumb|[[Gino Cervi]] and [[Fernandel]] in ''[[Don Camillo: Monsignor]]'' by [[Carmine Gallone]] (1961)]]
A series of black-and-white films based on [[Don Camillo and Peppone]] characters created by the Italian writer and journalist [[Giovannino Guareschi]] were made between 1952 and 1965. These were French-Italian coproductions, and starred [[Fernandel]] as the Italian priest Don Camillo and [[Gino Cervi]] as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the Communist Mayor of their rural town. The titles are: ''[[The Little World of Don Camillo]]'' (1952), ''[[The Return of Don Camillo]]'' (1953), ''[[Don Camillo's Last Round]]'' (1955), ''[[Don Camillo: Monsignor]]'' (1961), and ''[[Don Camillo in Moscow]]'' (1965).

The movies were a huge commercial success in their native countries. In 1952, ''Little World of Don Camillo'' became the highest-grossing film in both Italy and France,<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=9 September 1953|page=7|title=Europe Choosey on Films, Sez Reiner; Sluffs Flops|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety191-1953-09#page/n70/mode/1up|access-date=29 September 2019|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> while ''The Return of Don Camillo'' was the second most popular film of 1953 at the Italian and French box office.<ref>{{cite web|website=Box Office Story|title=1953 at the box office|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/france-1948-c22733213&prev=search}}</ref>

[[Mario Camerini]] began filming the film ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'', but had to stop filming due to Fernandel's falling ill, which resulted in his untimely death. The film was then realized in 1972 with [[Gastone Moschin]] playing the role of Don Camillo and [[Lionel Stander]] as Peppone.

A new Don Camillo film, titled ''[[The World of Don Camillo]]'', was also remade in 1983, an Italian production with [[Terence Hill]] directing and also starring as Don Camillo. [[Colin Blakely]] performed Peppone in one of his last film roles.