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Don't confuse this film with the similar '"Dove vai se il vizietto non ce l'hai?" (1979). Renzo Montagnani basically plays the same part in both films, but in this one it is Edwige Fenech, not Paola Senatore, who goes sunbathing while he does his gay butler act. Giacomo D'Amato (Renzo) is picked up by widowed countess Magda (Juliette Mayniel) the moment he's released from jail and promptly leaves his girlfriend standing there (remember-her-for-later-on alert). Magda wants Renzo to pose as a butler/chauffeur and seduce her brothers new wife Ines (who is Renzo's ex lover), so Magda can have the inheritance all for herself.

Ines (Susan Scott) is already having late night rendezvous with Magda's teenage son Marco (Roberto Censi and his trademark bad hair cut) and sees through the new Major Domo's gay disguise immediately. Finally Edwige arrives in green hot-pants on her scooter, proving to be an illegitimate love child of the crippled Count by showing the mole on her behind (the other blood relatives join her in the buttock line). As usual, Fenech waists no time and takes off her top for the aforementioned sun bathing scene, arousing the interest of Giacomo and Marco and objections from Ines.

As if all this wasn't confusing enough, the whole family keeps double and triple crossing each other to get into good graces with the Count. There is photographic evidence of adulterous affairs, a kidnap plot is foiled before the ransom note is dry, the blonde girlfriend from the start is suddenly the new maid, and a young cook who only appeared once or twice in the background suddenly moves in to seduce Edwige into a lesbian encounter (implied, not shown). Meanwhile Renato's gay act keeps getting more obnoxious (cringe as he hilariously vacuums Freddy Mercury style). When the time comes to go into the accusing parlour for the not so surprising final will and testament, most viewers will have stopped caring about these characters already.

5 out of 10

This Italian sex comedy is probably one of the best of its kind(exactly what's its "kind" is though is more questionable). The movie has a very decent cast and a good plot to tie the sundry sex scenes together. It is also genuinely funny in places, and not nearly as ineptly dubbed as many of these films often are. Renzo Montagnini plays a convict who gets out of prison and is picked up by a mysterious woman and taken to a wealthy estate to work as a butler. It seems one his ex-lovers (Nieves Navarro) is now married to an older wealthy man, and the mysterious woman, who is the rich man's half-sister, is trying to get the ex-convict to tempt the wife into infidelity so her brother will disinherit her. This hardly seems necessary as the wife is already a raving nymphomaniac, who is carrying on with her teenage nephew (the mysterious woman's own son). Then the man's illegitimate daughter (Edwige Fenech) shows up on a motorcycle (wearing some very 70's cheek-baring short-shorts), followed by the ex-convict's own neglected wife (Orchidea DiSantis), who is pretending to be maid. Oh yeah, and for some reason the ex-convict is posing, very unconvincingly, as a homosexual.

This movie actually works pretty well, largely because of the great cast. It's a little hard to buy the overweight, hirsute Renzo Mantagnini as a stud sought after by the likes of Fenech, Navarro, and DiSantis, but he is definitely one the better Italian comedians of the era and always an entertaining presence in these kind of films. Fenech as usual can't keep her top on, and Navarro can't keep her top OR bottom on. DiSantis remains a little less exposed, but is nevertheless featured in the standard low-angle shot while standing on a tall ladder scene made iconic in Italian sex comedies of the era by Laura Antonelli. All three women are good in their respective roles though. And amidst all the sex, nudity, and ribald comedy the movie ends up being a pretty effective satire of self-absorbed Italian bourgeoisie.

These films are kind of an acquired taste, of course, but if you like them in general, you'll definitely want to check out this one.

Clever and funny comedy in which what seems the most naive of everyone turns out to be a mastermind who manages to steal the loot.

Movie that pushes a lot on the sensuality of the actresses and on a very simple almost zany comedy.

Another reviewer wrote, "When the time comes to go into the accusing parlour for the not so surprising final will and testament, most viewers will have stopped caring about these characters already."

A sex comedy with Edwige Fenech. I didn't know there WERE other characters.