title: The Shortest Day
text: # The Shortest Day
  
  The Shortest Day (Italian: Il giorno più corto) is a 1963 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Franco and Ciccio in the leading roles. Dozens of other well-known actors, from both European and American cinema, agreed to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free to avert the bankruptcy of the production company, Titanus.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Two Sicilians, Franco and Ciccio, are taken from a small town in Sicily and shipped out with a unit in the Italian army which has to fight the Austrian troops in World War I. Upon war's end, Franco and Ciccio, more clumsy than ever, return to Italy but find themselves out of work.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Gino Cervi
  * Totò
  * Annie Girardot
  * Ugo Tognazzi
  * Eduardo De Filippo
  * Peppino De Filippo
  * Aldo Fabrizi
  * Gabriele Ferzetti
  * Philippe Leroy
  * Amedeo Nazzari
  * Tomas Milian
  * Romolo Valli
  * Renato Salvatori
  * Paolo Stoppa
  * Walter Chiari
  * Franca Valeri
  * Anouk Aimée
  * Franco Citti
  * Sylva Koscina
  * Virna Lisi
  * Carlo Pisacane
  * Giuliano Gemma
  * Massimo Girotti
  * Mario Girotti
  * Franco Fabrizi
  * David Niven
  * Erminio Macario
  * Tiberio Murgia
  * Raimondo Vianello
  * Memmo Carotenuto
  * Nino Castelnuovo
  * Luciano Salce
  * Nino Taranto
  * Aroldo Tieri
  * Yvonne Sanson
  * Simone Signoret
  * Susan Strasberg
  * Valentina Cortese
  * Lorella De Luca
  * Sandra Mondaini
  * Ilaria Occhini
  * Antonio Acqua
  * Ivo Garrani
  * Sergio Fantoni
  * Paolo Ferrari
  * Ángel Aranda
  * Fiorenzo Fiorentini
  * Paolo Panelli
  * Teddy Reno
  * Alberto Lupo
  * Fausto Tozzi
  * Enrico Viarisio
  * Pierre Brice
  * Aldo Bufi Landi
  * Vittorio Caprioli
  * Gordon Scott
  * Joe Sentieri
  * Massimo Serato
  * Gabriele Tinti
  * Jacques Sernas
  * Nino Terzo
  * Franco Sportelli
  * Luisella Boni
  * Lia Zoppelli
  * Lilla Brignone
  * Rossella Como
  * Scilla Gabel
  * Cristina Gaioni
  * Mark Damon
  * Nora Ricci
  * Rina Morelli
  * Antonella Lualdi
  * Frank Latimore
  * Franco Giacobini
  * Stewart Granger
  * Gérard Herter
  * Franco Balducci
  * Alberto Farnese
  * Gianni Garko
  * Maurizio Arena
  * Giacomo Furia
  * Stelvio Rosi
  * Umberto Orsini
  * Luigi Pavese
  * Emilio Pericoli
  * Walter Pidgeon
  * Steve Reeves
  * Roberto Risso
  * Mac Ronay
  * Folco Lulli
  * Piero Lulli
  * Ettore Manni
  * Rik Battaglia
  * Francesco Mulé
  * Jean-Paul Belmondo
  * Vittorio Gassman
  * Aldo Giuffrè
  * Renata Mauro
  * Sandra Milo
  