The lover of Felice Scaparro (Totò) is played by his real-life partner Franca Faldini.
The exclamation of Filippo Scaparro (Totò) "Soffittizzatevi!" when he exhorts men to take refuge in the garret spoofs the claim of the advertisement of scooter Piaggio Vespa ("Vespizzatevi!"). Just after that he precises that it's "against the strain of modern wives" ("contro il logorio della donna moderna"): it's a spoof of another popular radio advertisement (moved to TV only in the 1960s), the one of bitter artichoke liqueur Cynar, whose claim was "Contro il logorio della vita moderna" ("Against the strain of modern life"). This ad starred actor Ernesto Calindri, who performed it in particular for television from 1966 to 1984. Calindri worked together with Totò in Totòtruffa '62 (1961).
In his garret monologue Filippo Scaparro (Totò) praises Henri Landru. He was a French serial killer who used to murder women and then burn them in an oven placed in a villa in Gambais, a small village near Paris. A former inventor, Landru changed from a gentleman to a criminal after a sentence for fraud in 1902: he used to publish a marriage ad on newspapers in order to attract rich and lonely women in order to take possession of their assets and then kill them. He killed 10 women and the son of one of them between 1916 and 1919, when he was caught by police and sentenced to death in 1922, although he never confessed. The Landru case is cited in another movie of Totò, Totò contro i quattro (1963), where he plays a police inspector having to deal with what seems to be a very similar case.
Italian censorship visa # 13358 delivered on 13-12-1952.
First movie collaboration between Totò and Peppino De Filippo.