- Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
- Rome, the first years of the economic boom. Cavalier Torquato Pezzella owns and runs a very well established luxury clothing store. By its nature, however, it does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and for this reason it makes use of a tax consultant to be able to evade them with greater tranquility. Unfortunately for Cavalier Pezzella, the Guardia of Finance decides to send a tax audit, in the person of Marshal Topponi and Brigadier Bardi.
Aldo Fabrizi and Totò in a scene from the film Thus began Pezzella's attempts (guided by the advice of the dishonest and not very capable tax consultant, played by Louis DE Funès) to get into the good graces of the upright marshal to the point of trying to bribe him, sometimes even declaring him openly with an excessive dose of servility. The clumsy attempts will give the marshal many headaches, due to Pezzella's intrusiveness and therefore will backfire against those who had hatched them. Finally, Topponi draws up his tax investigation report which would condemn Pezzella to pay a huge fine.
Not yet defeated, Cavalier Pezzella decides an extreme gesture, and adopts a stratagem to steal the marshal's bag with the minutes inside. But in the end, perhaps overcome by pity for the troubles that the marshal would have had because of the missing bag, and on the advice of a priest, Pezzella makes the bag reappear and returns it. The marshal and the knight thus meet friends and even parents after many adventures: in fact, the clumsy attempts made by Pezzella on Topponi had allowed the merchant's son to meet the marshal's daughter. Eventually the two will try to raise their disastrous economies, relying on the game.
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