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Directed by Giorgio Simonelli Initial release 1943 Cinematography Ugo Lombardi | 5.7/10 IMDb Edited by Giorgio Simonelli Director Giorgio Simonelli Distributed by Istituto Luce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Written by Goffredo D'Andrea (novel)
Vincenzo Rovi
Ákos Tolnay
Steno Starring Totò
Vera Carmi
Enrico Glori Music by Ezio Carabella
Mario Ruccione Production
company Consorzio Tirrenia
Film Bassoli
Società Italiana Cines Music director Ezio Carabella, Mario Ruccione Cast Totò, Vera Carmi, Enrico Glori Similar Seven Hours of Trouble, Yvonne of the Night, Man - Beast and Virtue, Toto Looks for a Wife, Hands Off Me! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Two Hearts Among the Beasts (Italian: Due cuori fra le belve) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Totò, Vera Carmi and Enrico Glori. A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa find a missing anthropologist whose daughter he is in love with.
Contents
The film's sets were designed by Alberto Boccianti. It was shot at Cinecittà in Rome.
Plot
An important Italian scientist disappears in the Jungle, and his niece Laura sets off to find him. Toto, dance teacher, ends up in the wrong steamer trip, and discovers that the companions of the niece have a sinister plan: kidnap her. The ship, however, is shipwrecked on the island of the Jungle, and Toto is worshiped as a god by the natives, and is then received by the dispersed scientist, who sees him as "the missing link in the evolutionary chain of mankind".