Come rubammo la bomba atomica

Come rubammo la bomba atomica or How We Stole the Atomic Bomb is a 1967 Italian-Egyptian international co-production Eurospy comedy based on the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash. Filmed in Italy and Egypt, it stars the Italian comic duo of Franco and Ciccio and was directed by Lucio Fulci. The film features a teaming of parodies of famous film secret agents.

Come rubammo la bomba atomica
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Directed by	Lucio Fulci
Written by	Gian Paolo Callegari Sandro Continenza Roberto Gianviti Amedeo Sollazzo
Starring	Franco Franchi Ciccio Ingrassia
Music by	Coriolano Gori
Release date	3 February 1967 (1967-02-03)
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	Italy Egypt
Language	Italian

Plot

While fishing off the coast of Egypt, Italian fisherman Franco and his father see an American Air Force bomber crash in the water carrying nuclear weapons. Franco's father and the rest of the crew flee in a lifeboat, stranding Franco in the boat off the coast, which beaches. When Franco swims ashore, Agent 87, a member of an international criminal organization called SPECTRALIS, kidnaps him to locate the nuclear weapon. A man named Pasqualino leads SPECTRALIS. Pasqualino sends an Egyptian scientist and SPECTRALIS employee Dr. Yes, who wishes to use the energy of the weapon to reanimate Egyptian mummies.

Ciccio cannot extract information from the fisherman for the bomb's location. His attempt to threaten Franco with torture on a mechanical butt-kicking device backfires when Ciccio lets himself demonstrate the necessary posture himself.

Franco escapes and arrives at a train station. Not understanding that he is in Egypt, he attempts to purchase a railway ticket to his home in Palermo, but cannot speak Arabic. A nearby Italian priest helps him by explaining where he is, and Franco treats the man to a cappuccino at the station bar. There, Franco's hollering voice attracts the attention of Cinzia, a woman who joins in on the conversation.

At the SPECTRALLIS base in Egypt, three spies named James Bomb, Modesty Bluff, and Derek Flit attack Ciccio. However, they are so fixated on depriving each other of the catch then let him escape unnoticed while they brawl it out.

Meanwhile, Cinzia lures Franco to her hotel room with the promise of sex. Unknown to Franco, she works for Dr. Yes. However, while she has her back turned, Bomb, Bluff, and Flit break into the room and attempt to abduct Franco, to no avail. Then Ciccio arrives, retrieves his prisoner, and spirits him away to the base. Ciccio later uses a lie detector to probe Franco's mind by asking him questions about the bomb. Seeing that Franco knows nothing, Ciccio confides in him that his superiors will have him killed for failure to find the bomb. Franco talks Ciccio into teaming up in hatching a plot to plant a fake bomb where it can be found.

Franco and Ciccio make contact with Cinzia, who believes their claims that they found the bomb. She tricks them into a meeting with Dr. Yes at his underground headquarters at a villa outside Cairo. Dr. Yes plans to revive an Egyptian mummy of Nabuco Sonor, the Queen of the Dead. He requires the bomb's radiation to do this. His experiment appears to be successful when he achieves a thumb twitch from a specimen. Franco and Ciccio deliver the fake bomb, only to be told they will be sacrificed to Nabuco Sonor on her revival. The duo laughs, knowing that the bomb is not real. The mummy then stands up and advances towards them. However, Dr. Yes's plans are thwarted when the "mummy" is revealed to be Derek Flit in disguise. Aided by Bomb and Bluff, Flit beats up all of Dr. Yes's men and abducts Franco and Ciccio.

Out in the desert, the three spies fall out again over who will get the credit for turning Franco and Ciccio over to their superiors. They stop fighting each other when a live report on the radio announces that the search has ended after the United States claimed that there was no nuclear bomb on board the crashed plane. Franco takes the disgraced Ciccio aboard his fishing boat, still beached on the shore, to sail back to Italy. When they pull up the fishing nets to cast off, they discover the actual bomb tangled in them.

Weeks later, Franco and Ciccio are aboard a yacht living in a life of luxury, with the bomb pointed across the sea as they are blackmailing world leaders for riches by telephone to avert nuclear destruction.

Cast

• Franco Franchi as Franco
• Ciccio Ingrassia as Ciccio number 87 Spectrales
• Julie Ménard as Cinzia
• Eugenia Litrel as Modesty Bluff
• Youssef Wahbi as Doctor Yes
• Adel Adham as James Bomb
• Bonvi as Derek Flit
• Gianfranco Morici as Dr. Yes's Assistant
• Enzo Andronico as number 1221 Spectrales
• Alessandro Tedeschi as number 3 Spectrales
• Lucio Fulci as Pasqualino number 1 Spectrales

External links

• Come rubammo la bomba atomica at IMDb