![]() ![]() Vitali is not as annoying as he can be, and occasionally he is genuinely funny in this. Here though he has some competition from the studly male phys.ed.teacher. He goes to school with children, but he's also mature enough to root around in the bushes with a willing high school lass and to fall madly in lust with his incredibly sexy substitute teacher (he keeps arranging "accidents" for the regular teacher to keep the substitute coming back). He has a flatulent grandfather, a doting mother, an uptight older sister, and a harried restaurateur father. "Pierino", Vitali's character, is a literal man-child who likes to play pranks on and insult everybody around him. ![]() And what we have is basically a 70's Italian forerunner to Adam Sandler's "Billy Madison". Vitali here has apparently been sent back to junior high school, so all his classmates are basically children. ![]() For better or worse, this particular film is the Alvaro Vitali show all the way. What both of these series DID share, however, was the dubious comic stylings of Alvaro Vitali, who sometimes played a teacher, but usually played the oldest and goofiest-looking high school student in the history of public education. Mario Laurenti, Michele Tarantini, Marino Girolami), strangely, the "insegnante" never met the "liceale" on-screen (thus passing up a golden opportunity to for a stern Fenech to administer a good sound spanking to a petulant Guida). While both of these series were done by the same group of directors (i.e. DeMille's The Ten Commandments may not be the most subtle and sophisticated entertainment ever concocted, but it tells its story with a clarity and vitality that few Biblical scholars have ever been able to duplicate.If you're familiar with low-brow 70's Italian sex comedies (and why would you be?), you might know that the most low-brow of the bunch were the the "insegnante" series, where Edwige Fenech plays a ridiculously sexy schoolteacher, and the "liceale" series, where Gloria Guida plays a ridiculously sexy high school student. "Where's your Moses now?" brays Dathan in the manner of a Lower East Side gangster. Robinson), are forgetting their religion and behaving like libertines. ![]() Meanwhile, the Hebrews, led by the duplicitous Dathan (Edward G. Sinai, who delivers unto him the Ten Commandments. Later, Moses is again confronted by God on Mt. But Moses rescues his people with a little Divine legerdemain by parting the Seas. As the Hebrews reach the Red Sea, they discover that Rameses has gone back on his word and plans to have them all killed. Only after the Deadly Plagues have decimated Egypt does Rameses give in. Banished by his jealous half-brother Rameses (Yul Brynner), Moses returns fully bearded to Pharoah's court, warning that he's had a message from God and that the Egyptians had better free the Hebrews post-haste if they know what's good for them. Moses (Charlton Heston) starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son (and a whiz at designing pyramids, dispensing such construction-site advice as "Blood makes poor mortar"), but when he discovers his true Hebrew heritage, he attempts to make life easier for his people. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. ![]()
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