Mario Mattoli

Mario Mattoli

Birth : 1898-11-30, Tolentino, Marche, Italy

Death : 1980-02-26

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Mario Mattoli

Movies

Totò Story
Director
For a Few Dollars Less
Director
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
Corpse for the Lady
Director
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Obiettivo ragazze
Director
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
Appuntamento in Riviera
Director
In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.
Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Director
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
5 marines per 100 ragazze
Director
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Director
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Un mandarino per Teo
Director
Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. Teo seems to be tempted by the offer...
Appuntamento a Ischia
Director
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Director
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Signori si nasce
Director
Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Tipi da spiaggia
Director
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Guardatele ma non toccatele
Director
An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
Non perdiamo la testa
Director
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Prepotenti più di prima
Director
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Director
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
Move and I'll Shoot
Writer
Renato Tuzzi, a primary school teacher, is a shy man, unable to be respected by the turbulent kids.
Move and I'll Shoot
Director
Renato Tuzzi, a primary school teacher, is a shy man, unable to be respected by the turbulent kids.
Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà
Director
Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.
I giorni più belli
Director
Eighteen Year Olds
Director
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
L'ultimo amante
Screenplay
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
L'ultimo amante
Director
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
Totò cerca pace
Screenplay
Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Totò cerca pace
Director
Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Il medico dei pazzi
Screenplay
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Il medico dei pazzi
Director
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Poverty and Nobility
Director
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Director
Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
Funniest Show on Earth
Director
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Neapolitan Turk
Director
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Siamo tutti inquilini
Director
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
The Lucky Five
Director
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
Vendetta... sarda
Director
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
My Heart Sings
Screenplay
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
My Heart Sings
Story
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
My Heart Sings
Director
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
Il padrone del vapore
Director
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.
Toto the Third Man
Director
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Damn the Taxes!!
Screenplay
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Damn the Taxes!!
Writer
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Damn the Taxes!!
Director
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Ours are coming
Director
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
Toto the Sheik
Director
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Tototarzan
Screenplay
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
Tototarzan
Director
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
I cadetti di Guascogna
Director
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
L'inafferrabile 12
Director
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
Il vedovo allegro
Director
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
Adam and Eve
Director
Signorinella
Writer
Signorinella
Director
The Firemen of Viggiù
Director
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
Circo equestre Za-bum
Screenplay
Circo equestre Za-bum
Writer
Circo equestre Za-bum
Director
Toto Tours Italy
Director
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Fifa e arena
Director
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Assunta Spina
Director
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Cab Number 13
Director
I due orfanelli
Director
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Partenza ore 7
Screenplay
The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.
Partenza ore 7
Story
The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.
Partenza ore 7
Director
The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.
Life Begins Anew
Story
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Life Begins Anew
Director
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Ho tanta voglia di cantare
Writer
Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl.
Ho tanta voglia di cantare
Director
Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl.
The Last Wagon
Director
Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
La vispa Teresa
Screenplay
Alberto, son of a rich engineer, falls in love with Luisa, a ruthless manicurist who is only after his money. His parents offer him a holiday in Venice because they hope he will forget her. Alberto however leaves for Venice with Luisa, who has asked a friend of hers to take her place at the beauty parlour. Alberto's parents go there and mistake Teresa for Luisa. A series of misunderstandings ensues...
La vispa Teresa
Director
Alberto, son of a rich engineer, falls in love with Luisa, a ruthless manicurist who is only after his money. His parents offer him a holiday in Venice because they hope he will forget her. Alberto however leaves for Venice with Luisa, who has asked a friend of hers to take her place at the beauty parlour. Alberto's parents go there and mistake Teresa for Luisa. A series of misunderstandings ensues...
La valle del diavolo
Screenplay
La valle del diavolo
Writer
La valle del diavolo
Director
Labbra serrate
Director
La donna è mobile
Director
I tre aquilotti
Director
At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.
Catene invisibili
Director
Stasera niente di nuovo
Writer
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.
Stasera niente di nuovo
Director
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.
Voglio vivere cosi
Writer
A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin.
Voglio vivere cosi
Director
A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin.
Schoolgirl Diary
Screenplay
Schoolgirl Diary
Director
Luce nelle tenebre
Screenplay
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
Luce nelle tenebre
Director
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
Non me lo dire!
Director
Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.
Il pirata sono io!
Story
In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Il pirata sono io!
Director
In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Screenplay
Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Director
Abandonment
Screenplay
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
Abandonment
Writer
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
Abandonment
Director
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?
Screenplay
Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them.
Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?
Director
Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them.
1000 km per minute!
Editor
Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
1000 km per minute!
Screenplay
Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
1000 km per minute!
Director
Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
Imputato, alzatevi!
Screenplay
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
Imputato, alzatevi!
Director
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
Eravamo sette vedove
Screenplay
Eravamo sette vedove
Director
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Screenplay
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Director
Nonna Felicita
Screenplay
Nonna Felicita
Director
Il trovatello
Writer
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
Il trovatello
Director
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
The Lady in White
Director
The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
The Man Who Smiles
Director
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo
Screenplay
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo
Director
Felicita Colombo
Director
In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
Musica in piazza
Screenplay
Musica in piazza
Director
La damigella di Bard
Screenplay
Venice Film Festival 1936
La damigella di Bard
Director
Venice Film Festival 1936
Amo te sola
Screenplay
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
Amo te sola
Director
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
Full Speed
Screenplay
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
Full Speed
Story
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
Full Speed
Director
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
La segretaria per tutti
Producer
La segretaria per tutti
Screenplay