Two Hearts Among the Beasts

Two Hearts Among the Beasts
Directed by Giorgio Simonelli
Written by Goffredo D'Andrea (novel)
Vincenzo Rovi
Ákos Tolnay
Steno
Starring Totò
Vera Carmi
Enrico Glori
Music by Ezio Carabella
Mario Ruccione
Cinematography Ugo Lombardi
Edited by Giorgio Simonelli
Production
company
Consorzio Tirrenia
Film Bassoli
Società Italiana Cines
Distributed by ENIC
Release dates
 26 May 1943
Running time
 83 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

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.[1] A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa find a missing anthropologist whose daughter he is in love with.

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".

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Parish p.139

Bibliography

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