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	New York State Writers Institute - Big Deal on Madonna Street Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET is, like the best parodies, a skillfully crafted work in its own right.
		Big," only a hapless collection of losers who long for the fearful respect, the dames, and the riches they will know only from the movie screen.
		The Americans were fully persuaded by BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET that their beloved crime movies needed chivvying.
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	DVD Review: Big Deal On Madonna Street(Criterion)
		"Big Deal On Madonna Street" is an enjoyable little comedy caper, a genre that has certainly stood the test of time as there are still many new films that go over the same ground.
		VIDEO: Although "Big Deal On Madonna Street" certainly looks acceptable considering its age, I must confess that I'm a bit spoiled after watching the company's magnificent restoration of the two years younger "L'Avventura", which also recieved a DVD release recently.
		"Big Deal" is presented fl & white in its original 1.33:1 full_frame aspect ratio and is given a new digital transfer for this DVD edition.
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	Big Deal on Madonna Street: Criterion (1958)
		Big Deal On Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.
		Based on the first few scenes, it looked like Madonna Street would be an excessively broad and bawdy affair, and I had low expectations for the rest of the piece.
		Big Deal On Madonna Street appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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	Mini Reviews (April 2003) - Reviews by David Nusair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Good Thief, All That Heaven Allows, Poolhall Junkies, Liberty Stands Still, Flinch, Crazy People, House of 1,000 Corpses, Half Past Dead, The Weight of Water
		Big Deal on Madonna Street follows the exploits of a bumbling group of criminals as they attempt to pull off a complicated heist.
		Though the idiots-trying-to-steal-something genre isn't exactly a fresh one now, Big Deal on Madonna Street (released in 1958) is most likely the first film of its kind.
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	The Criterion Collection: Big Deal on Madonna Street
		Mario Monicelli’s Big Deal on Madonna Street is that genuine rarity in popular culture: a satire that not only helped kill off one movie genre, but started a whole new subgenre in the process.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street put director/co-author Monicelli (who had begun his own professional life as a film critic before turning to filmmaking) on the map as a major director.
		In contrast to their movies, in which blind luck brings about the demise of the plan and the gang members, the luck found on Madonna Street puts the gang on the path to an honest life.
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	Movie Habit: Review of Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), ***
		Big Deal on Madonna Street, like any movie in the Criterion collection, is worth a look.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street is an Italian caper that riffs on the film noir (think Asphalt Jungle made as a comedy) and that, according to the liner notes, started a whole genre of comedic capers, like Topkapi and The Italian Job.
		The choice of movie is certainly unique — Big Deal on Madonna Street is a film I had never heard of until Criterion released it — and the picture, as always with Criterion, is impeccable.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/big_gh01.shtml (701 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Big Deal on Madonna Street: Criterion Collection
		We have all seen variations on the great caper movie, where a group of intrepid, highly skilled professional thieves are drawn together for the one big score that will make their careers.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street (in Italian, I Soliti Ignoti) is a hilarious, fast-paced parody of the caper film genre.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street comes to us from Criterion in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
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	Details for Marcello Mastroianni/Big Deal On Madonna Street at CDconnection.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mario Monicelli 's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street is a spoof of Jules Dassin 's caper classic Rififi.
		The influence of Big Deal on Madonna Street can be seen in such films as Woody Allen 's Small Time Crooks (2000), and to this day the film remains both charming and very funny.
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	Big Deal on Madonna Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A lighthearted romp down the back streets of a small Italian city and a journey into the rich heritage of Italian neo-realism, Big Deal on Madonna Street does not fail to ignite laughs and synapses of memory.
		The charm of Big Deal on Madonna Street rests squarely on it’s characters shoulders and their ability to move forth with larceny in the face of consistent bumbling.
		The source material for Big Deal on Madonna Street is in good condition, resulting in a transfer free of excessive scratches and dirt.
	www.filmsondisc.com /LaserReview/bigdeal.htm (299 words)

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	Big Deal on Madonna Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mario Monicelli’s Big Deal on Madonna Street follows the exploits of a band of hapless losers who join forces to pull off a heist, despite the fact that they are not remotely good at crime.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street is a comic gem: a send-up as well as an affectionate nod to classic heist films, with an unforgettable, perfect cast.
		Overall the transfer of the film is very good, though not without problems: there are quite a few specks and fl blotches, and periods of scratches.
	www.classicsondvd.com /bigdeal.htm (272 words)

	Film-Forward Review: [BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET 20 YEARS LATER]
		This sequel to the 1958 Italian comedy, Big Deal on Madonna Street, revisits three characters from the classic, now in their twilight years.
		Of course, things do not go as planned, and the three old timers are put to the test against the modern world.
		Though it has its fair share of running jokes (Tiberio is constantly haunted by painters and his son is one long gay joke), most of them miss their mark.
	www.film-forward.com /bigdeal.html (300 words)

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		Big Deal on Madonna Street - 20 Years Later
		Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita) stars in the sequel to the hit comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street.
		Twenty years after their first "big deal" landed them in jail, the original gang is back in action.
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	Big Deal On Madonna Street (DVD) \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		In the superb 1958 heist comedy Big Deal On Madonna Street, the Asphalt Jungle of its own subgenre, director Mario Monicelli takes this theme to its comic extreme, presenting a group of would-be thieves whose endeavors seem doomed before they even step out of bed.
		Big Deal's delay in getting around to the big score is among its best jokes; the characters are allowed to bounce against each other as their sure thing looks less sure and their criminal bravado fades to reveal the gentle souls beneath.
		But despite the rich comic characters, Monicelli's decision to shoot the film as a straightforward thriller, using grungy Roman locations and gracefully fluid camerawork, is what really puts it over.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/4892 (349 words)

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		Big Deal on Madonna Street is a comedy of errors that also possesses sympathy for its sad-sack characters.
		The characters in Big Deal on Madonna Street are constantly making mistakes as they hilariously stumble through their plans.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street is a very funny film that serves as an excellent counterpoint to Rififi, which is also available on DVD from Criterion.
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		LEAD: BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET Starring Marcello Mastroianni (at left in photo), Vittorio Gassman (at right) and Claudia Cardinale.
		BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET Starring Marcello Mastroianni (at left in photo), Vittorio Gassman (at right) and Claudia Cardinale.
		This 1957 takeoff on those ''Rififi''-style crime capers that go off like clockwork is a cuckoo clock of a show.
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	dOc DVD Review: Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti ignoti) (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Close on the heels of the classic crime thriller Rififi came this wacky satire on the hard-boiled professional crime movie.
		Where Rififi focused on men who were highly competent at their 'work' of burglary and safecracking, the participants in Big Deal on Madonna Street are uniformly inept and incompetent.
		The plan involves a thin wall between a vacant apartment on Madonna Street and the next-door pawnshop safe.
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	DVD Review: Big Deal on Madonna Street
		The most gratifying aspect of Criterion's new digital transfer of Mario Monicelli's classic comedy caper film I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) is the fuller appreciation of the stunning fl and white cinematography by Gianni Di Venanzo.
		In many ways this is a perfect film, not in that it is the greatest film ever made, but in the sense of being like a perfectly cut block of marble.
		From the opening shot of a desolate city street primed for a car burglary, to the final scene where Peppe (Gassman) unwillingly finds himself trapped in a job line after the botched heist, there is nary a false frame.
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	Big Deal On Madonna Street, 20 Years Later (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Big Deal On Madonna Street, 20 Years Later (1985)
		He returns to the neighborhood only to find that his life is not at all like he remembered.
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	DVD Empire - Item - Big Deal On Madonna Street: The Criterion Collection / DVD-Video
		BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET - 2.5 out of 5 (5/17/2002)
		Mario Moncelli's BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET (1958, despite the print saying 1960) was the film that declared "enough with the Euro heist films" and was a big hit in its time.
		It is not a great heist film, nor is it supposed to be.
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	Images - Big Deal on Madonna Street
		DVD review David Ng The Criterion Collection has recently released Big Deal on Madonna Street on DVD, with entirely new English subtitles.
		The digital transfer is new and was conducted with the help of Cincecitta Studios in Italy, where the movie was filmed.
		The lack of extras (there is only the original theatrical trailer) reinforces Big Deal’s status as a minor classic.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/bigdeal (62 words)

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		Big Deal on Madonna Street - Criterion Collection (1960)
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		As other reviewers have mentioned, Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks" was clearly inspired by this film, so if you liked that one, you'll probably enjoy Madonna Street.
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	TIME.com: CINEMA -- May 3, 1963 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Flubber-faced Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed.
		Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes, but early-bird honors still go to Pisacane: he's got the worm.
		Danny Kaye has got into the clutches of the Jerry Lewis people, and is forced to caper through a series of predictable sight gags with nary a line from Sylvia Fine to brighten the charade.
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	Premiere Magazine - Welcome to Collinwood
		Louis Malle's Crackers, one of the director's few out-and-out misfires, brought Street to '80s San Francisco; now cowriter-codirectors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo's Collinwood brings Street's story of a bunch of loutish but likable losers planning a perfect crime to a hardscrabble outskirt of Cleveland.
		It's not as if the original is such a big deal; it's an amiable comedy that spoofs such popular crime films of the era as Rififi, but it's a decidedly minor work.
		If you've never seen Madonna Street (which I suppose is not entirely outside the realm of probability), you could find Collinwood chucklesome; if you have, you'll just be left saying "Huh?"
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	VH1.com : Movies : Big Deal on Madonna Street : Plot
		Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and
		Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt.
		Big Deal on Madonna Street is a spoof of Jules Dassin's caper classic Rififi.
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		Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) featur...
		Like the similarly themed British film The Ladykillers, Mario Monicelli's caper comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street takes a hapless group of misfits on a heist during which...
		Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a neighboring business and drilling the...
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