| Totò Tarzan | |
| Director: | Mario Mattoli |
| Producer: | Romolo Laurenti |
| Starring: | Totò Marilyn Buferd Alba Arnova |
| Music: | Armando Fragna |
| Cinematography: | Giuseppe La Torre |
| Editing: | Otello Colangeli |
| Studio: | Cinematografica Distributori Indipendenti |
| Distributor: | Cinematografica Distributori Indipendenti |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Totò Tarzan is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò, Marilyn Buferd and Alba Arnova.[1] 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 Totò's other films of the era it was a commercial success, taking around 385 million lira at the box office.[2]
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.