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Totò Tarzan
Totò Tarzan
	Film poster
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Written by	Agenore Incrocci; Marcello Marchesi; Vittorio Metz; Furio Scarpelli
Produced by	Romolo Laurenti
Starring	Totò ; Marilyn Buferd ; Alba Arnova
Cinematography	Giuseppe La Torre
Edited by	Otello Colangeli
Music by	Armando Fragna
Production; company	Cinematografica Distributori Indipendenti
Distributed by	Cinematografica Distributori Indipendenti
Release date	31 October 1950;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Totò Tarzan is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò, Marilyn Buferd and Alba Arnova.^[1] It is a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel Tarzan of the Apes. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. As with Totò's other films of the era it was a commercial success, taking around 385 million lira at the box office.^[2]

Plot

Antonio is a foundling who has lived for years in the jungle along with the monkey Bongo. But one day a troop of scouts passed into the forests of the Congo and finds him out. Antonio is well reported in civil society, where he learned, not without many difficulties and funny situations, the usages of men. In addition egl falls also Iva, only girl to truly understand his suffering due to separation from its environment. In fact, Antonio discovers that he also came from a noble family and had inherited a substantial sum of money. This opportunity will be exploited by cruel colleagues of Iva to seize all the money taking advantage of the inability Antonio, but Iva protects him and soon the two find themselves in trouble. The project of the monkey Bongo will help Antonio and Iva against the wicked.

Cast

Totò as Antonio Della Buffas
Marilyn Buferd as Iva
Bianca Maria Fusari as La maestra
Alba Arnova as Sonia
Adriana Serra as Marta
Luisa Poselli as Giacoma, la moglie dei procuratore generale
Galeazzo Benti as L'esercitatore dei superparacadutisti
Vira Silenti as Dora
Tino Buazzelli as Spartaco
Mario Castellani as Stanis
Enrico Luzi as Lawyer Finotti
Vinicio Sofia as Baron Rosen
Luigi Pavese as Roy
Guglielmo Barnabò as Colonel
Nico Pepe as Lawyer Micozzi
Carlo Croccolo as Lo sposino
Alberto Sorrentino as Anselmo
Giacomo Furia as Chef
Aldo Giuffrè as Paratrooper
Riccardo Billi as Il capostazione siciliano
Nino Vingelli as Il capostazione napoletano
Guglielmo Inglese as Il capostazione pugliese
Ughetto Bertucci as Il capostazione romano
Mario Siletti as Butler
Sophia Loren as Tarzanide

References

^ "New York Times: Totò Tarzan". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2008.
^ Chiti & Poppi p.371