On the Tiger's Back (movie)
A cavallo della tigre- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Italy
- Producer: Luigi Comencini
- Production companies: Titanus, Film 5
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Release date: 12/20/1961
- Run time: 105 min.
Movie description
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.