Stefano Vanzina, known as Steno, was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for comedies and parodies. His films often featured prominent Italian comic actors and popular genre pastiches.

Directed and wrote numerous Italian comedies. Reviews on DeBaser discuss films including Banana Joe ('82, starring Bud Spencer), Totò nella Luna (1958, co-written with Lucio Fulci), Mio figlio Nerone (1956, starring Alberto Sordi) and La Patata Bollente (1979, starring Renato Pozzetto and Edwige Fenech). Banana Joe's soundtrack credited in a review to the De Angelis brothers.

DeBaser hosts a small set of reviews on Steno focusing on his comedies and parodies. Reviewers discuss films' humour, parody of genres and recurring collaborators (Totò, Alberto Sordi, Bud Spencer). Reception ranges from appreciative to mixed, with praise for performances and occasional reservations about execution.

For:Fans of classic Italian comedy, cinephiles, students of film history, followers of Totò/Alberto Sordi/Bud Spencer

 A film without too many pretensions, but perhaps deeper than it seems, "Banana Joe" tells us the story of a gentle giant (played by a perfectly in-shape Bud Spencer) who, in a fantastical Brazil, works as a banana transporter, the main local wealth, in perfect harmony with the native population, who adore him for his generosity and simplicity.

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 More than ten years before what history recognizes as the first moon landing, on July 20, 1969, when at 20:18 UTC Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission (the other members were, as we know, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins) set foot on the lunar surface and solemnly declared, 'That's one small step for man, but giant leap for mankind', another 'earthly creature' had indeed already crossed that threshold and achieved the great feat first among all.

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 The great Steno in 1956 filmed what remains the most famous parody title tied to the genre.

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 "There are no conspiracies!", decree the system’s bigwig professors... but then why do "secret services" exist, I ask?

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 A significant chapter in Italian comedy.

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