Mario MattoliFilmography

Born:: November 30, 1898
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Cadavere Per Signora

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

8/19/64
Sua Eccellenza Si Fermo a Mangiare

Crew: Director

3/30/61
Totò, Fabrizi e i Giovani d'oggi

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò

8/7/60
Signori Si Nasce

Crew: Director

4/16/60
Appuntamento a Ischia

Crew: Director

1960
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò

8/9/58
Le Diciottenni

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marisa Allasio, Ave Ninchi, Virgilio Riento

Synopsis: In keeping with the film's title, most of the characters in Le Diciotenni are 18 years old. The story takes place in a girl's finishing school, populated entirely by knockout beauties. One of the girls (Marisa Allasio) faces expulsion because her father has been known to consort with criminals. Read More

1956
Totò cerca pace

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò

10/20/54
Two Nights with Cleopatra

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, the lusty "Queen of the Nile" is determined to be with her lover, Marc Antony, before he heads off to war. Unfortunately, she has been assigned a new guard. She made love to her previous guard and he ended up executed as had several guards before him. Her new guard Read More

2/4/54
Il Piu Comico Spettacolo Del Mondo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marc Lawrence, May Britt, Tania Weber, Franca Faldini

Synopsis: The brilliant Italian screen comedian Toto stars in the modestly titled Il Piu Comico Spettacolo de Mondo (Funniest Show on Earth). Lensed in 3D, the film is a broad spoof of Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, with Toto essaying the James Stewart role as a fugitive from justice posing Read More

1954
Il Turco Napoletano

Crew: Director

Actors: Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Primarosa Batistella, Franca Faldina

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by Eduardo Scarpetta, Il Turco Napoletano is retooled into a vehicle for Italian comedian Toto. The star plays a girl-happy dolt who assumes the identity of a missing Turkish gentleman. With stolen identification papers, the oafish impostor enters the home of a wealthy man Read More

1953
Cinque Poveri in Automobile

Crew: Director

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Titina de Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Walter Chiari

Synopsis: A stellar cast distinguishes the so-so seriocomedy Cinque Poveri in Automobile (Five Paupers in an Automobile). The story is set in motion by a winning raffle ticket, jointly held by four people. The first prize is an automobile, which the foursome intend to drive for a day of pleasure before Read More

1952
Anema e Core

Crew: Director

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Maria Mercader, Giorgio de Lullo, Nerio Bernardi

Synopsis: Heart and Soul is actually an Italian variation on Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Vittorio de Sica plays a provincial schoolmaster, much beloved by his past and present students. We follow De Sica as he stands steadfastly at his post throughout the years, during which time he is aided and abetted by Read More

12/7/51
Accidenti Alle Tasse

Crew: Director

9/13/51
Totò sceicco

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò

11/30/50
Tototarzan

Crew: Director

10/31/50
Adamo Ed Eva

Crew: Director

Actors: Isa Barzizza

Synopsis: Adamo ed Eva could just as well have been titled Everyman and Everywoman. Told in episodic fashion, the film illustrates how the downfall of "Adams" throughout history have been orchestrated, either intentionally or otherwise, by the "Eves" of the world. Macario, a popular Italian comedian Read More

11/22/49
I Pompieri Di Viggiu

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Taranto, Wanda Osiris, Carlo Campanini

Synopsis: I Pompieri di Viggiu draws its title from a popular Italian song of the era. The title translates literally to The Firemen of Viggiu, and indeed the film's comedy is totally reliant upon how amusing one finds a group of bumbling firemen. Heading the cast is Italy's number one comedy star Toto Read More

4/16/49
Totò al giro d'Italia

Crew: Director

12/30/48
Fifa E Arena

Crew: Director

11/23/48
Il Fiacre N. 13

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcel Herrand, Ginette Leclerc, Leonardo Cortese, Vera Carmi, Roldano Lupi

Synopsis: Il Fiacre N. 13 is based on the novel of the same name by Xavier Montepin. The title translates as Cab No. 13, and the two-part story ("Il Castigo" and "Delitto") concerns the various amorous occupants of that cab. Several of the leading actors essay multiple roles to detail the intrigues arising Read More

1948
The Lady Is Fickle

Crew: Director

Actors: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Campanini

Synopsis: The Lady is Fickle is another in a brief series of movie vehicles for internationally renowned opera star Ferrucio Tagliavini. The star plays Ferrucio Landini, a provincial schoolmaster who aspires to become an opera singer. He is helped in this endeavor by his pal Christopher (Carlo Campanini) Read More

1948
Assunta Spina

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Magnani, Eduardo de Filippo, Antonio Centa, Titina de Filippo

Synopsis: Assunta Spina, the popular stage drama by Salvatore Di Giacomo, was first filmed in 1913. This pioneering Italian feature has been hailed as a precursor to the postwar neorealist movement, so it stands to reason that the 1947 remake would star the queen of neorealism, Anna Magnani. The original Read More

1948
I Due Orfanelli

Crew: Director

11/26/47
Anything for a Song

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Luisa Rossi, Tino Scotti, Al Silvani

Synopsis: Anything for a Song exists primarily as a showcase for the miraculous singing talents of opera star Ferruccio Tagliavini. The nonsensical story casts Tagliavini as the son of a wealthy eggplant processor (no kidding!) who elects to foresake the family business and try his luck as a singer. His Read More

1947
I Live As I Please

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Silvana Jachino

Synopsis: Not every postwar Italian film was a slice of unadulterated neorealism. Proof of this can be found in the frothy, escapist musical I Live as I Please. Opera star Ferruccio Tagliavini heads the cast as a gullible peasant who is targeted for persecution by his practical-joking brother. Led to Read More

1947
Circo Equestre Za-Bum

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1943
Labbra Serrate

Crew: Director

11/13/42
I Tre Aquilotti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

8/30/42
Ore 9 lezione di chimica

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alida Valli, Irasema Dilian, Andrea Checchi, Giuditta Rissone, Ada Dondini

Synopsis: In this Italian drama, a wealthy snob of a college girl is the head of her sorority, but turns out to be a wretched student. To save herself from failing chemistry (she had already failed almost every other class), the girl makes a pass at her handsome professor. The girl finds a rival in another Read More

9/6/41
Luce Nelle Tenebre

Crew: Director

7/12/41
Abbandono

Crew: Director

9/18/40
Ai Vostri Ordini Signora

Crew: Director

2/15/39
Il Destino

Crew: Director

Actors: Luigi Cimara

Synopsis: Il Destino was released outside of Italy as Damsel of Bard. Emma Grammatica stars as Naria, the wife of Franco, the Count of Bard (Luigi Simari). Though she does not love her husband, Naria is loyal to family tradition, refusing any and all erstwhile lovers to keep up appearances. Things change Read More

1938
Il Trionfo Dell'amore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Paola Barbara, Armando Migliari, Giuditta Rissone, Enrico Viarisio

Synopsis: Loud, prolonged laughter is the order of the day in the Italian Il Trionfo Dell'Amore (Triumph of Love). Vittorio de Sica and Paolo Barbara play Vincenzo and Giovanna, newlyweds who can't help but feel that their marriage may have been a mistake. While on their honeymoon at the villa of Vincenzo's Read More

1938
Questi Ragazzi

Crew: Director

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Paola Barbara, Giuditta Rissone, Enrico Viarisio, Armando Migliari

Synopsis: Questi Ragazzi (Those Children) is the story of a December-December romance. An elderly man and woman, both long widowed, inaugurate a surprisingly passionate romance. So frisky are the aged lovers that they are referred to as "those children" by their own children. As it turns out, the oldsters Read More

1937
L'Uomo Che Sorride

Crew: Director

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Umberto Melnati, Enrico Viarisio

Synopsis: This Italian romantic drama was originally released as L'Uomo Che Sorride. It's a Taming of the Shrew yarn in mufti; the eminently tameable heroine is a spoiled industrialist's daughter named Adriana. Used to getting her own way, Adriana has browbeaten her eternally-smiling husband Pio into Read More

1937
Amo Te Sola

Crew: Director

Actors: Milly, Vittorio De Sica, Enrico Viarisio, Giuditta Rissone, Ada Dondini

Synopsis: Vittorio de Sica stars as Professor Giovanni Agano, a lighthearted (and somewhat light-headed) Italian composer. Falling head over heels in love with the aristocratic Grace (Milly), Giovanni endeavors to make himself a worthy suitor. His efforts are compromised by his alleged best friend Piccoli (Enrico Viarisio Read More

1936

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