L'arbitro (internationally released as Playing the Field, Football Crazy and The Referee) is a 1974 comedy film directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. The main character, Carmelo Lo Cascio, is inspired on the referee Concetto Lo Bello. The theme song, "Football Crazy", is sung by the football player Giorgio Chinaglia.
Cast Lando Buzzanca as Carmelo Lo Cascio Joan Collins as Elena Sperani Gabriella Pallotta as Laura, wife of Lo Cascio Ignazio Leone as Fichera Marisa Solinas as Luisella, wife of Fichera Massimo Mollica as La Forgia Daniele Vargas as the president as himself as himself Bruno Pizzul as himself Nicolò Carosio as himself
Gianfranco Barra as policeman in Terni
Umberto D'Orsi as the doctor
Renato Terra
Carla Mancini Alvaro Vitali as the postman
See also List of Italian films of 1974
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