Don Camillo's Last Round (Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone)

Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Leda Gloria head the cast of Don Camillo's Last Round, a 1955 comedy co-produced by France and Italy and directed by Carmine Gallone; its Italian title is Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone. Filmed in Italian, it lasts about 100 minutes. Of the five films with Fernandel as Don Camillo, the Italian village priest, this is the third, and in France it sold 5,087,231 tickets.

At the heart of the story is the running quarrel between the priest and Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town, played by Gino Cervi. The rivalry is carried here onto a political stage. The wider cast includes Umberto Spadaro, Memmo Carotenuto, Guido Celano, Marco Tulli, Saro Urzì, Paolo Stoppa and Jean Debucourt.

The screenplay, drawing on the writings of Giovannino Guareschi, was credited to Guareschi together with René Barjavel and Leonardo Benvenuti, and Cineriz produced. Filming ran through April and May at the Cinecittà studios in Rome and on location in Boretto and Brescello in Emilia-Romagna, with sets by art director Virgilio Marchi. It premiered on 18 November 1955. Julien Duvivier had directed the first two films; Gallone took over and would also direct the fourth. The film follows Le Retour de don Camillo and precedes Don Camillo Monseigneur.