: Agostino is fiercely devoted to a painting of St. John the Baptist's severed head. He is obsessed with uncovering a thief who nightly steals the oil from the saint's votive lamp.
: The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini , a future architect of Italian Neorealism, alongside Aldo Vergano and Palermi. San Giovanni decollato (1940)
: A notable historical footnote is that an 18-year-old Italo Calvino published his first-ever piece of writing as a review of this film in 1941, praising Totò's "uncontested dominance" on screen. Principal Cast and Production Cesare Andrea Bixio — Grokipedia : Agostino is fiercely devoted to a painting of St