Pecados de provincia

For over two millennia, Italian comedies have satirised lust and greed, snobbery and hypocrisy, both metropolitan and provincial. The version of this film on YouTube fails, however, to live up to its distinguished lineage.

Arbitrary jumps in editing eat away at whatever continuity of plot and development of character there may have been in the first place. While Renzo Montagnani performs manfully as the corrupt but not lecherous mayor, as his frustrated wife Macha Méril is wasted.

Though I can't be bothered to work out why chunks of film have been randomly excised, a possibility is that some kind soul has nobly tried to spare us the depravity of uncovered human flesh?