Before the Postman

There's Room Up Ahead
Directed by	Mario Bonnard
Written by	Aldo Fabrizi Piero Tellini Federico Fellini Cesare Zavattini Mario Bonnard
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato
Starring	Aldo Fabrizi Andrea Checchi Adriana Benetti Virgilio Riento
Cinematography	Vincenzo Seratrice
Edited by	Maria Rosada
Music by	Giulio Bonnard
Production company	Società Italiana Cines
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	30 April 1942 (1942-04-30)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

There's Room Up Ahead (Italian: Avanti c'è posto) is a 1942 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Andrea Checchi and Adriana Benetti. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

Plot

A young girl - Rosella - loses her wallet on a tram. Cesare, the ticket collector, is trying to help her after she's left without a dime and homeless. Soon he and his tram driver friend Bruno are competing for the attention of the girl.

Cast

• Aldo Fabrizi as Cesare Montani
• Andrea Checchi as Bruno Bellini
• Adriana Benetti as Rosella
• Virgilio Riento as The Boss
• Carlo Micheluzzi as Angelo Pandolin
• Cesira Vianello as Cecilia Pandolin
• Jone Morino as The woman who vanished
• Pina Gallini as The misstres of Rosella
• Gioconda Stari as Teresa
• Arturo Bragaglia as Tullio
• Giulio Battiferri as Pietro, tram driver
• Giulio Calì as A passenger
• Wanda Capodaglio as Mrs. Camilla
• Olga Capri
• Giuseppe Ciabattini
• Enrico Luzi as A passenger
• Vinicio Sofia as The hotel porter
• Anna Maria Zuti

Bibliography

• Moliterno, Gino. A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

• Before the Postman at IMDb