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Tag Archives: Totò
Hawks and Sparrows (1966) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi
This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history Read More »
The Law Is the Law (1958) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Totò, René Génin
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
Where Is Freedom? (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Totò, Vera Molnar, Nyta Dover
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. Read More »
St. John the Baptist Beheaded (1940) Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi, Totò, Titina De Filippo, Silvana Jachino
Mastr’Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded Read More »
The Monk of Monza (1963) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario
Italy, 1630. The widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler. In search of food for his twelve children Read More »
Gli onorevoli (1963) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Antonio Acqua, Riccardo Billi
Italian coral comedy that chronicles the adventures of several candidates for deputies and senators of some impending elections. 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 »
I ladri / The Thieves (1959) Lucio Fulci, Totò, Giovanna Ralli, Armando Calvo, Comedy
An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds, hidden in jam jars. Read More »
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Comedy
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. 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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Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin / Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962) Giorgio Bianchi, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Nadia Sanders, Comedy
Who but Totò could come up with a send-up of the erection of the Berlin Wall mere months after its completion? Totò and Peppino are hired by some former Nazis to pretend to be Admiral Canarinis and his assistant — wanted war criminals — but the American authorities don’t believe them and deport them to East Berlin. There, they’re captured by the Russians, who do believe them, and demand they reveal the whereabouts of American spy planes. In the always politically charged atmosphere of Italy, the film sparked controversy among Totò’s admirers on both the Left and the Right.
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Totò e Carolina / Toto and Carolina (1955) Mario Monicelli, Totò, Anna Maria Ferrero, Arnoldo Foà, Comedy
The policeman stops Caccavallo Villa Borghese prostitutes: among women, there is also the young Carolina, ran away because she was pregnant. Authorities instructed Caccavallo to bring the girl to his country.
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Totò e i re di Roma / Toto and the King of Rome (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Totò, Aroldo Tieri, Alberto Sordi, Comedy, Drama
Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five daughters, lives with only dream to be upgraded from his current position in the post department. Everithing goes wrong, he accidentally spits on the minister’s face, he insults him trough a parrot (!), and finally they discover he has no titles to fit his current position. After all this tragicomic events he takes a definitive decision: he will die to communicate from the afterlife the lotto numbers to his wife!
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