Plot

An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.—Salvatore Santangelo <pappagone2@libero.it>

A cargo ship from America arrives in Naples, Italy. As the dockworkers unload the cargo, a jam-jar rolls out of a packing case, and dockworker Vincenzo Scognamiglio picks it up, opens it, and finds it stuffed with coins. Slow-witted Vincenzo is puzzled by the discovery, but his shrew wife Maddalena realizes that the coins are part of a bigger consignment being smuggled into the country. After reading a newspaper article about Joe Castagnato, an American counterfeiter and thief who has recently arrived in Naples, Maddalena puts two and two together. Accompanied by her buffoonish family, she visits Castagnato and insists that he cut them in on the score. Meanwhile, garrulous, vain Police Commissioner Di Savio of Naples is on the case, and and an odd-looking agent from the American FBI is monitoring his investigation..—matt-282

Vincenzo Scognamiglio steals a pineapple jam jar in the Naples harbour and is astonished when he finds his mouth full of golden coins. His wife Maddalena realizes at once that the coins are part of the booty of a robbery which had taken place in New York and for which Joe Castagnola is the main suspect. So Vincenzo and Maddalena decide to contact Joe and to help him in getting back his loot. Meanwhile, Commissioner Di Savio and his assistant, La Nocella, are questioning Castagnola about the missing golden coins.—Baldinotto da Pistoia