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One of Italy's most famous actor's and Italian counterpart to America's Charlie Chaplin, Toto Esposito built his career in the era of physical comedy and repartee. While the United States had it's share of physical comedic actors during the silent era and into the "talkies", Toto was one of the forerunners for Italy. His debut in the 1937 film Hand's Off Me! as his self titled character Toto, was the start of a 100+ film career, most of which centered around the same self titled character.
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As I've stated before (on numerous occasions) the success of the first couple of James Bond films in the early 1960's launched an entirely new genre in the in the film realm as low budget studios attempted to capitalize on the public's ever growing interest in the spy films. This gave birth to the Euro-spy genre, often simply referred to as the "James Bond knock-offs" which usually came out of Spain and Italy. But even lesser known British film companies tried to capitalize on their own new national spy figure, usually in the form of spy comedies. And much like their Euro-spy counterparts these films were not of the best quality, and in some cases as Casino Royale I'd say they were actually worse.
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