Mad Animals
1939 Italian film
- Ivo Perilli
- Ettore Maria Margadonna
- Gaetano Campanile-Mancini
- Achille Campanile
- Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
- Carlo José Bassoli
- Gustavo Lombardo
- Totò
- Luisa Ferida
- Calisto Bertramo
- Lilia Dale
- Ezio Carabella
- Luigi Colacicchi
Production
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Titanus Film
Release date
- April 1939 (1939-04)
Running time
Mad Animals (Italian:Animali pazzi) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Luisa Ferida and Calisto Bertramo.[1] It was made at the Titanus Studios in Rome.
Plot
Baron Tolomeo dei Tolemei is about to receive the inheritance of a relative, just died. The legacy, however, as he wants the will, must go in part to finance a medical structure for crazy animals. Only then Baron Tolomeo may have the rich heritage. The affair proves complicated, because Tolomeo has a love affair with the beautiful Maria Luisa. The troubles continue when in life of Tolomeo breaks his poor twin-brother Antonio, physically like him, who secretly falls in love with Maria Luisa.
Cast
- Totò as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei/His brother
- Luisa Ferida as Maria Luisa
- Calisto Bertramo as Fabrizio, il maggiordomo
- Lilia Dale as Ninetta
- Dina Perbellini as La direttrice dell'ospedale degli animali
- Bianca Stagno Bellincioni as Zia Elisa
- Claudio Ermelli as Il notaio
- Raffaele Giachini as Il pretendente
- Cesare Polacco as Il creditore
- Pina Gallini as La proprietaria del cavallo pazzo
References
- ^ Moliterno p.316
Bibliography
- Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Animali pazzi.
- Mad Animals at IMDb
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Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
- Your Money or Your Life (1932)
- Bad Subject (1933)
- Unripe Fruit (1934)
- Tomb of the Angels (1937)
- Mad Animals (1939)
- Two on a Vacation (1940)
- The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)
- After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
- Music on the Run (1943)
- Come Back to Sorrento (1945)
- The Other (1947)
- The White Primrose (1947)
- 47 morto che parla (1950)
- Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
- Bluebeard's Six Wives (1950)
- Toto Looks for a Wife (1950)
- Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)
- At Sword's Edge (1952)
- Don Lorenzo (1952)
- I'm the Hero (1952)
- Orient Express (1954)
- The Queen of Babylon (1954)
- The Mighty Crusaders (1958)
- The Sword and the Cross (1958)
- Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958)
- Hannibal (1959)
- The Loves of Hercules (1960)
- Amazons of Rome (1961)
- Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961)
- The Four Musketeers (1963)
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