What a great movie, indeed.
Federico Fellini's far and away the best part. The Maestro did a superb job.
The great British actor Terence Stamp, who lived in Italy in the late 1960s, was chosen by Fellini in place of Peter O'Toole, his first choice.
In the following years, Stamp worked with other Italian directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nelo Risi and Peppino Patroni Griffi.
It was rumored that Fellini had long talks about this movie with his friend Stanley Kubrick. Later, someone found similarities between the gold painted Ferrari running at full speed in the narrow streets of Rome and the crazy race of Alex DeLarge's Durango-95 car in "Clockwork Orange", or between the small girl that appears in Terence Stamp's mind with her "strange ball" and the small boy Danny, the twins and their mysterious Overlook Hotel's ball, in "Shining".
The Fantuzzi Ferrari of the film, had a so-called "Targa-di-cartone" (cardboard plate), a provisional license plate (number 14844-P4) that at the time allowed the still unregistered cars to circulate in open roads in Italy.
Edited by Nanni Dietrich, 13 May 2013 - 09:11.