The Wild Eye

Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan is an obscure 1960 giallo directed by comedy specialist Giorgio Bianchi. A spin off from a popular television series of the time, Tenente Sheridan, which also starred Ubaldo Lay, it’s of some historical interest for being one of the earliest Italian feature films to have been spawned from the then-novel TV medium.

Although he was already a top-drawer star at the time, Alberto Sordi’s career really went into overdrive in 1959.  He appeared in 10 different films that year, and although some of his parts were really little more than glorified cameos (ie Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura), the majority were bona-fide starring roles.  And the thing that [...]