Above all... Coolness

Above all... Coolness

1951 · 62 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.

Directed by Dinos Iliopoulos · Written by Mimis Fotopoulos

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