- HD 1080
- Runtime: 105m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: it
- Country: Italy
- Director: Luigi Comencini
- Stars: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volonté, Raymond Bussières
- Production_studio: Titanus, Film 5
- The On the Tiger's Back is featured in the top rankings of 1961
- #12 in Top Comedy Movies of 1961
- #29 in Top Drama Movies of 1961
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.