Guglielmo Morandi

The boss has come up with something: Ed, outwardly a brave London citizen, attacks with a well-trained accomplice a van of the British Central Bank. The gangsters capture a million pounds sterling and can escape unrecognized. Scotland Yard is the target of the mockery, it comes to a government crisis. Only the hint of a child, who happened to witness the coup, brings the genre law enforcers on the right track.

Here are two Sherlock Holmes stories dramatized for Italian television audiences in the late 1960's: The Valley of Fear and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The apathetic existence of forty-year-old Giovanni Percolla from Catania is shaken only by his marriage to the marquise Ninetta and his move to Milan, although a brief return to Sicily is enough for him to rediscover the indolence of his philosophy of life.