On the Tiger's Back

12/20/19611h 45min7.4/10(27 TMDB votes)

DramaComedy

Directed by Luigi Comencini

Plot

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.