Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1950
Tot Tarzan
Buy Tot Tarzan now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Tot Tarzan' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Tot, Marilyn Buferd and Alba Arnova. 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 Tot's other films of the era it was a commercial success, taking around 385 million lira at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.371
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
* Tot 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 Barnab as Colonel
* Nico Pepe as Lawyer Micozzi
* Carlo Croccolo as Lo sposino
* Alberto Sorrentino as Anselmo
* Giacomo Furia as Chef
* Aldo Giuffr 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
Bibliography
* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. 'Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959'. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Buy Tot Tarzan now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1950