According to protagonist Totò this bittersweet comedy was butchered by the censorship, receiving "82 cuts", including scenes and lines of dialogue (even a song was redubbed). Most of the censorship was caused by the supposedly unflattering portrayal of the main character, an ultimately decent but flawed police officer. Totò was particularly distraught by the cuts, as he mentioned in an interview that his was the best movie he ever did.
A restored version that includes scenes deleted and original dialogs changed by censorship in 1953-1955, was released in 1999.
Ready in 1953, censorship took two years and heavy cuts for giving visa, so the movie was released in 1955.
During first screening for censorship visa, censorship commission raised 35 "sensitive points" preventing the visa.
Italian censorship visa # 16044 delivered on 8-12-1954.
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