The Payoff
Theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by	Sergio Corbucci
Written by	Attilio Veraldi Dino Maiuri Massimo De Rita Luciano De Crescenzo Elvio Porta
Starring	Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Paolo Stoppa
Cinematography	Luigi Kuveiller
Edited by	Amedeo Salfa[1]
Music by	Pino Daniele
Production company	Filmauro[1]
Distributed by	United Artists Europa
Release date	17 March 1978
Running time	110 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Payoff (Italian: La mazzetta) is an Italian crime comedy film directed in 1978 by Sergio Corbucci. It is based on the 1976 crime novel of the same name by the writer Attilio Veraldi.^[2]

Cast

• Nino Manfredi: Sasà Jovine
• Ugo Tognazzi: Commissioner Assenza
• Paolo Stoppa: Don Michele Miletti
• Marisa Laurito: Luisella
• Imma Piro: Giulia Miletti
• Gennaro Di Napoli: Nicola Casali
• Marisa Merlini: Elena, Michele's first wife
• Sal Borgese: Tonino
• Giovanni Borgese: Pasquale
• Benito Stefanelli: Improta
• Giacomo Furia: Antonio
• Nino Vingelli: Catelli
• Lilly Furia: Miss Catelli
• Pietro De Vico: Car parking-Caretaker

Sequel

Following the commercial success of the movie it was planned a movie-adaptation from the Veraldi's second novel based on the character of Sasà Jovine, L'uomo di conseguenza (1978), still directed by Sergio Corbucci and starred by Marcello Mastroianni in the role of Jovine. After a series of meetings Mastroianni declined: he was not enthusiast to resume a character already successfully performed by Nino Manfredi and the plot of the sequel involved incest, a scabrous subject he had treated the same year in the movie Stay As You Are. The production then decided to make him play a story with a tone more similar to La mazzetta but not based on any novel, Neapolitan Mystery.^[3]