Trivia

This was the first of eight starring feature film roles Marcello Mastroianni would appear in for Ettore Scola. These films included A Special Day (1977), La terrazza (1980), That Night in Varennes (1982), My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971), Splendor (1989), Che ora è? (1989), and Maccheroni (1985).

Marcello Mastroianni won the Best Actor award at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The director Ettore Scola won the Palme d'Or nomination.

"The film, though a winner primarily because of its performances, has the fun air of some of the earlier postwar Italian comedies," remarked Cue magazine, while The New Yorker called it "a genial mutt of a movie - a comic-strip parody of operatic passion."

Originally titled Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca). This translates awkwardly to "Drama of Jealousy (All the Details in the News)." It was promoted at the Cannes Film Festival as "What a Lovely Day." When that title failed to click, it was renamed "Jealousy, Italian Style," a half-hearted attempt to riff on the previous decade's cycle of comedies like Divorce Italian Style (1961), Marriage Italian Style (1964), War Italian Style (1965) and Ghosts, Italian Style (1967). Other names included "Jealousy Drama" and "The Motive Was Jealousy" before Warner Bros. finally settled on its most commonly referred to English title for the U.S. release, "The Pizza Triangle."

The Pizza Triangle (1970) (Italian: Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) and also released as Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things)) is an Italian commedia all'italiana film directed by Ettore Scola and written by Scola and the famous screenwriter duo of Age & Scarpelli (Furio Scarpelli and Agenore Incrocci. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini. It was co-produced with Spain and Spanish actors Manuel Zarzo and Juan Diego are dubbed into Italian. The film is available on DVD in Germany, released by WB as Eifersucht auf italienisch, and in Italy.