Jone Salinas

Young Italian magistrate Schiavi (Massimo Girotti) finds the going rough when he assumes his new post in a small Sicilian town. The villagers are held in thrall by the local Mafia branch. Far from being outraged, the populace welcomes the intrusion of organized crime, believing that the Mafia's swift and terrible brand of justice is a lot more effective than the legal kind. It comes down to a war of wills between Schiavi and Mafia-don Passalaqua (Charles Vanel). (allmovie.com)

Totò meets a little boy whose mother has just died. The little boy is sent out begging by his cruel uncle, but when Totò finds out he gets the uncle imprisoned. The uncle's wife tells the little boy his mother is in hell, so the little boy tries to burn Totò's house so he can join her there. But Totò arrives just in time and convinces the boy that his mother is not in hell. (movie-time)

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.

A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).