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Tag Archives: Mario Mattoli
Two Nights with Cleopatra AKA Due notti con Cleopatra (1954) Mario Mattoli, Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi, Paul Muller
Cleopatra is a beautiful woman but has a small flaw: when she likes an officer of the guard Read More »
Full Speed AKA Tempo massimo (1934) Mario Mattoli, Vittorio De Sica, Milly, Camillo Pilotto
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl. Read More »
The Firemen of Viggiu AKA I pompieri di Viggiù (1949) Mario Mattoli, Nino Taranto, Totò, Vanda Osiris
Viggiù is a happy and peaceful town. Firefighters have just work. Read More »
Scarred AKA Assunta Spina (1948) Mario Mattoli, Anna Magnani, Antonio Centa, Maria Donini
Carnal passion, tender feelings, devotion, murder, blood, broken hearts, vicious gambling Read More »
Neapolitan Turk AKA Un turco napoletano (1953) Mario Mattoli, Totò, Ignazio Balsamo, Isa Barzizza
Cocheletti deputy promised to send Don Pasquale, ripe, rich, and fruit and vegetable merchant Sorrento Read More »
The Last Wagon (1943) Mario Mattoli, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Anita Durante
The roman coachman Totò doesn’t want his coach being replaced by cars and doesn’t want his daughter Nannarella to go out with the taxi driver Roberto. Read More »
Signori si nasce (1960) Mario Mattoli, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Delia Scala, Comedy
Early 1900. The knight Pio degli Ulivi (De Filippo) is a respected ecclesiastical tailor, humble and prudent. Read More »
Il pirata sono io! / The Pirate’s Dream (1940) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Enzo Biliotti, Comedy
The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack…. and from then on a bad idea gets worse. Read More »
Miseria e nobiltà / Poverty and Nobility (1954) Mario Mattoli, Totò, Enzo Turco, Dolores Palumbo, Comedy
“Miseria e Nobiltà” tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, So they pose as aristocrats.
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La vita ricomincia / Life Begins Anew (1945) Mario Mattoli, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Eduardo De Filippo
When former POW, Paolo, returns from India to his middle-class home in Rome at the end of the war, he is relieved to find his wife, Patrizia, and young son alive, managing to get by thanks to Patrizia’s business in lampshades. They also enjoy the moral support of the jovial, elderly Neapolitan widower, who is their new neighbour, Il professore. However disaster strikes when Patrizia commits a murder – her response to a mysterious man’s attempt to blackmail her to have sex with him. Paolo discovers that during his absence, in the face of their son’s desperate need for a life-saving operation, Patrizia prostituted herself once to the murdered man to raise the funds, a sequence revealed through a flashback sequence…
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Imputato alzatevi! (1939) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Leila Guarni, Ernesto Almirante
Cipriano Duval is a nurse and multiservice man in the pediatric clinic of his foster brother. He falls in love with a female colleague. So she is interested in him, he will pretend to be a Don Juan harassed by letters and attention of his fans. But his obsession adventurous one day become drama, coincidentally is the body of a dead woman and under various indications is accused of murder.
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