The Big Fox(1988)
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?
Movie: The Big Fox
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Bartolomeo Mosca
Ugo Maria Volpone
Ciro Corvino
Raffaele Voltore
Marta Corbaccio
Ernesto Corbaccio
Eliana Voltore
Francesca Corvino
Aldo Marignano
Rosalba Marignano
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Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?
Release Date
1988-02-27
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