''Neapolitan Turk'' ( it, Un turco napoletano) is a 1953 Italian
comedy film directed by
Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattoli (; 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966.
His 1939 film ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy ...
and starring
Totò.
Plot
The film is based on a play by the famous Neapolitan writer
Eduardo Scarpetta
Eduardo Scarpetta (13 March 1853 – 12 November 1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples.
Biography
Although not from a theatrical family, he was on the stage by the age of four and is today best remembered as the creator of a c ...
, father of
Eduardo and
Peppino De Filippo and Titina De Filippo The story is set in
Naples and
Sorrento in the second half of 1800. The thief ''Felice Sciosciammocca'' (the surname in Naples means "one who is always with her mouth open in astonishment"; ''Felice'' means "Happy") together with the bandit Faina ("Weasel") escapes from prison and meets with a Turkish
eunuch that he should go to
Sorrento for a job. Don Felice kidnaps him and steals his letter of recommendation to get into the house of a rich businessman, so that gains a bit of money for him and for his accomplice. The man who had called the Turkish is the rich grocer Don Pasquale, being jealous of his wife and young daughter, betrothed to Don Carluccio holding a dowry, is to host the Turk and immediately test some suspicion. In fact, the Turk rather than look like an eunuch protector proves to be a great womanizer and causes the sympathy of all the girls in the town and the wrath of the young. Don Felice, forgetting appears Faina, have fun in monitoring the wife and daughter of Pasquale and Don Carluccio appears more and more restless by the net waste of his betrothed. In the following days Don Felice will be met with the Honourable MP Cocchetelli who had recommended the real Turk to Don Pasquale, but cannot reveal the truth because Don Felice surprised him with a girl who was not his wife. On the day of the wedding, don Carluccio, after an engagement party gone wrong, stormed into the house of Don Pasquale to beat him, but Don Felice intervenes and gives the marching orders to the bully who runs away scared. All thank Don Felice, who reveals his identity and claims to have done all this misunderstanding and funny situations to entertain the audience watching him from a theater.
Cast
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Totò as Felice Sciosciammocca
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Ignazio Balsamo as Luigi
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Isa Barzizza as Giulietta
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Primarosa Battistella as Lisetta
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Liana Billi
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as Giuliana
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Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
as Don Pasquale
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Anna Campori as Concettella
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Mario Castellani as L'onorevole Cocchetelli
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Dino Curcio Dino may refer to:
Prefix
* dino-, a common prefix in taxonomy, meaning "terrible", "formidable"
**Dinosaur
People
* Dino (given name), a masculine given name and a nickname
* Dino (surname), a surname found in Albania and Turkey
* Diño, a surn ...
as Michele
*
Christiane Dury Christiane is a given name, a form of the Latin ''Christiana'', feminine form of ''Christianuis'' (see Christian), or a Latinized form of Middle English ''Christin'' 'Christian' (Old English ''christen'', from Latin)..
A short form is Chris. Alter ...
as Marion
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Franca Faldini
Franca Faldini (10 February 1931 – 22 July 2016) was an Italian writer, journalist and actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome into a middle-class Jewish family, Faldini was forced to flee to Tuscany because of the Fascist racial laws. After th ...
as Angelica
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Amedeo Girard Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo.
People with this name include:
* A number of rulers and noble ...
as Ignazio
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Aldo Giuffrè
Aldo Giuffrè (10 April 1924 – 26 June 2010) was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was born in Naples and was the brother of actor Carlo Giuffrè.
He is known for his roles in '' The F ...
as Faina
References
External links
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1953 films
1953 comedy films
1950s Italian-language films
Italian films based on plays
Films based on works by Eduardo Scarpetta
Films directed by Mario Mattoli
Films set in Naples
Films set in Sorrento
Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
Italian comedy films
1950s Italian films