His Last Twelve Hours

His Last Twelve Hours (French: Pour l'amour du ciel, Italian: È più facile che un cammello...) is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jean Gabin, Mariella Lotti and Elli Parvo.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia near Cinecittà in Rome.^[2]

His Last Twelve Hours
Film poster
Directed by	Luigi Zampa
Written by	Cesare Zavattini Suso Cecchi d'Amico Vitaliano Brancati
Produced by	Carlo Civallero
Starring	Jean Gabin Mariella Lotti Elli Parvo
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Music by	Nino Rota
Production companies	Società Italiana Cines Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Distributed by	ENIC Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date	14 February 1951 (1951-02-14)
Running time	81 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	Italian

Plot

Died in a car accident, the wealthy footwear industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil when he was alive. Defending himself from the accusation in a passionate harangue, however, he manages to get back to earth for a few hours, in order to repair the evil committed and above all the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's attempted suicide.

Cast

• Jean Gabin as Carlo Bacchi
• Mariella Lotti as Margot, Bacchi's wife
• Julien Carette as Amedeo Santini
• Elli Parvo as Lidia Guidi, Bacchi's friend
• Antonella Lualdi as Maria
• Antonietta Pietrosi as Anna, Carlo Bacchi's daughter
• Paola Borboni as Luisa
• Carlo Sposito as The Duke Sorino
• Marga Cella as Mrs. Gigliosi
• Fausto Guerzoni as A worker
• Piero Pastore as A working trade unionist
• Dante Maggio as The cobbler
• Enrico Luzi as Witness of the accident
• Dino Raffaelli as Giuseppe
• Bella Starace Sainati as Luisa, Bacchi's aunt
• Bice Valori as Witness of the accident