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** The Beretta MAB-38 can be seen in WWII flashbacks. Also, Don Camillo still owns one, stolen from Peppon's secret arsenal before setting it on fire.
** Don Camillo also owns a Carcano rifle, and grabs it at the start of the [[Film/LittleWorldOfDonCamillo first movie]] when it looks like Peppone's supporters, that Camillo had just pissed-off, were about to storm the church.

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** Peppone is Don Camillo's equal (or nearly equal) as far as pure strength is concerned, but the priest has a bit of an edge through his better technique.
*** It's not just technique, it's also faith. Several times, when Don Camillo is overtaken by righteous anger or a simple need to do the right thing, he'll perform feats of strength even more incredible than his regular ones. Every once in a while, the same happens with Peppone.

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** Peppone is Don Camillo's equal (or nearly equal) as far as pure strength is concerned, but the priest has a bit of an edge through his better technique.
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technique. It's not just technique, it's also faith. Several times, when Don Camillo is overtaken by righteous anger or a simple need to do the right thing, he'll perform feats of strength even more incredible than his regular ones. Every once in a while, the same happens with Peppone.
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* A sixth film for the above series, fr. ''Don Camillo et les contestataires''/ it. ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' (''Don Camillo and the Red-Haired Girl''), was in the making in 1971 when Fernandel collapsed while shooting, due to a cancer he didn't know he had. [[DiedDuringProduction He died a month later, the movie unfinished]]. Out of respect for him, the studio completely remade the movie with different actors (Gino Cervi refused to make a new film without Fernandel) instead of showing the unfinished movie.

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* A sixth film for the above series, fr. ''Don Camillo et les contestataires''/ it. ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' (''Don Camillo and the Red-Haired Girl''), was in the making in 1971 when Fernandel collapsed while shooting, due to a cancer he didn't know he had. [[DiedDuringProduction [[invoked]][[DiedDuringProduction He died a month later, the movie unfinished]]. Out of respect for him, the studio completely remade the movie with different actors (Gino Cervi refused to make a new film without Fernandel) instead of showing the unfinished movie.
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* A sixth film for the above series, fr. ''Don Camillo et les contestataires''/ it. ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' (''Don Camillo and the Red-Haired Girl''), was in the making in 1971 when Fernandel collapsed while shooting. He died a month later, the movie unfinished. Out of respect for him, the studio completely remade the movie with different actors (Gino Cervi refused to make a new film without Fernandel) instead of showing the unfinished movie.

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* A sixth film for the above series, fr. ''Don Camillo et les contestataires''/ it. ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' (''Don Camillo and the Red-Haired Girl''), was in the making in 1971 when Fernandel collapsed while shooting. shooting, due to a cancer he didn't know he had. [[DiedDuringProduction He died a month later, the movie unfinished.unfinished]]. Out of respect for him, the studio completely remade the movie with different actors (Gino Cervi refused to make a new film without Fernandel) instead of showing the unfinished movie.
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* LivingStatue: In "The Fear Persists" Don Camillo, who has learned the identity of the killer in an unsolved case of murder in a confession, is applying varnish to the large wooden crucifix on the main altar of his church when he suddenly has the impression that the statue's hand comes alive and touches his forehead to push it back. At the same time, a gunshot is fired into the church through a window (presumably the murderer trying to eliminate an unwanted witness). Moments later Don Camillo realizes that the bullet has pierced the hand of Christ. Though Christ insists that Don Camillo is "fantasizing", it is strongly implied that Christ's statue saved Don Camillo's life by pushing his head aside.
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* HauntingTheGuilty:
** In "The Dog", Don Camillo and Peppone investigate the mystery of a stray dog which spooks the locals with its blood-curdling nightly howl. They discover the dog is howling each night over a large bag caught in the river reeds which upon inspection is found to contain a decomposing human body. Don Camillo infers that the man in the bag was murdered and dumped into the river, and the victim's dog has been following the corpse floating down the river ever since. The body cannot be identified and the crime is not cleared up, but the narration closes with the assurance that there are certain people (obviously meaning the perpetrators and accomplices of the murder) who still hear the dead man's dog's howling each night, and will do so for the rest of their lives. It is left ambiguous whether those who keep hearing the howl are being supernaturally haunted, or just being tortured by their conscience.
** In "Nocturne With Bells" Don Camillo is approached by a man called Biondo who confesses that during the partisan war he murdered a man for his money, but let it look like a politically motivated killing. Though Biondo asserts that he doesn't regret the killing at all, and even though he is legally clear thanks to Italy's postwar amnesty, he desperately wants Don Camillo to absolve him of his sin because each night after nightfall he can see the dead man standing beside his bed.
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The ''Don Camillo'' stories were written by Giovannino Guareschi starting in 1945 for his satirical magazine ''Candido'', and soon afterward compiled into books. The series is originally entitled ''Mondo piccolo'', referring to the "little world" of the villages and small towns in the Po valley near Parma. Most of the stories published in periodicals, and all of those that were anthologized into books, center on the hotheaded priest Don Camillo (who often talks to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}... and with Jesus talking back to him[[note]]According to the author, the voice of Jesus is his (the author's) conscience.[[/note]]) and his eternal rivalry with Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi, the communist mayor of his little town The town is not named in the stories, while in the films it is called Brescello after the one where the exterior shots were made. Both are authority figures for the town, both fought in the war together, and both like using their fists to decide their arguments. Most of the stories tell about the life in a small town, where everybody knows everybody, but many people do not like each other, which is pretty accurate as small towns go...

It is pretty much of a historical document of a time when both the Italian Communist Party and the Roman Catholic Church had a grassroots-like basis in Italian society but were diametrically opposed to each other in quite a few teachings, but if you went down to their basics they were quite similar in many respects. Even if neither would have never admitted it to anyone.

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The ''Don Camillo'' stories were written by Giovannino Guareschi starting in 1945 for his satirical magazine ''Candido'', and soon afterward compiled into books. The series is originally entitled ''Mondo piccolo'', referring to the "little world" of the villages and small towns in the Po valley near Parma. Most of the stories published in periodicals, and all of those that were anthologized into books, center on the hotheaded priest Don Camillo (who often talks to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}... and with Jesus talking back to him[[note]]According to the author, the voice of Jesus is his (the author's) conscience.[[/note]]) and his eternal rivalry with Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi, the communist mayor of his little town town. The town is not named in the stories, while in the films it is called Brescello after the one where the exterior shots were made. Both are authority figures for the town, both fought in the war together, and both like using their fists to decide their arguments. Most of the stories tell about the life in a small town, where everybody knows everybody, but many people do not like each other, which is pretty accurate as small towns go...

It is pretty much of a historical document of a time when both the Italian Communist Party and the Roman Catholic Church had a grassroots-like basis in Italian society but were diametrically opposed to each other in quite a few teachings, but if you went down to their basics they were quite similar in many respects. Even if neither would have never admitted it to anyone.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the second movie, Don Camillo carries his old parish's cross up a steep hill to the village in the mountains. In heavy rain. [[UpToEleven Then heavy snow.]]

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the second movie, Don Camillo carries his old parish's cross up a steep hill to the village in the mountains. In heavy rain. [[UpToEleven Then heavy snow.]]

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