Neapolitan Turk

1953 film

Neapolitan Turk
(Un turco napoletano)

Film poster

Directed by| Mario Mattoli
Written by| Sandro Continenza
Italo De Tuddo
Ruggero Maccari
Mario Monicelli (from the play written by Eduardo Scarpetta)
Produced by| Alfredo De Laurentiis
Starring| Totò, Carlo Campanini
Cinematography| Riccardo Pallottini
Karl Struss
Edited by| Renato Cinquini
Roberto Cinquini
Music by| Pippo Barzizza

Release date

* 1953 (1953)

Running time

| 86 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Neapolitan Turk (Italian: Un turco napoletano) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.[1]

## Plot

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The film is based on a play by the famous Neapolitan writer Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo and Titina De Filippo The story is set in Naples and Sorrento in the second half of 1800. The thief Felice Sciosciammocca (the surname in Naples means "one who is always with her mouth open in astonishment"; Felice means "Happy") together with the bandit Faina ("Weasel") escapes from prison and meets with a Turkish eunuch that he should go to Sorrento for a job. Don Felice kidnaps him and steals his letter of recommendation to get into the house of a rich businessman, so that gains a bit of money for him and for his accomplice. The man who had called the Turkish is the rich grocer Don Pasquale, being jealous of his wife and young daughter, betrothed to Don Carluccio holding a dowry, is to host the Turk and immediately test some suspicion. In fact, the Turk rather than look like a eunuch protector proves to be a great womanizer and causes the sympathy of all the girls in the town and the wrath of the young. Don Felice, forgetting appears Faina, have fun in monitoring the wife and daughter of Pasquale and Don Carluccio appears more and more restless by the net waste of his betrothed. In the following days Don Felice will be met with the Honourable MP Cocchetelli who had recommended the real Turk to Don Pasquale, but cannot reveal the truth because Don Felice surprised him with a girl who was not his wife. On the day of the wedding, don Carluccio, after an engagement party gone wrong, stormed into the house of Don Pasquale to beat him, but Don Felice intervenes and gives the marching orders to the bully who runs away scared. All thank Don Felice, who reveals his identity and claims to have done all this misunderstanding and funny situations to entertain the audience watching him from a theater.[2][3]

## Cast

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* Totò as Felice Sciosciammocca
* Ignazio Balsamo as Luigi
* Isa Barzizza as Giulietta
* Primarosa Battistella as Lisetta
* Liana Billi as Giuliana
* Carlo Campanini as Don Pasquale
* Anna Campori as Concettella
* Mario Castellani as L'onorevole Cocchetelli
* Dino Curcio as Michele
* Christiane Dury as Marion
* Franca Faldini as Angelica
* Amedeo Girard as Ignazio
* Aldo Giuffrè as Faina

## References

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1. ^ Moliterno, Gino (29 September 2008). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6254-8.
2. ^ Moliterno, Gino (12 October 2009). The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7059-8.
3. ^ Neapolitan Turk (1953), retrieved 9 March 2020

## External links

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* Neapolitan Turk at IMDb

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Films directed by Mario Mattoli

* Full Speed (1934)
* I Love You Only (1935)
* The Man Who Smiles (1936)
* Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936)
* La Damigella di Bard (1936)
* Music in the Square (1936)
* The Last Days of Pompeo (1937)
* These Children (1937)
* Felicita Colombo (1937)
* Destiny (1938)
* Triumph of Love (1938)
* Nonna Felicità (1938)
* A Lady Did It (1938)
* The Lady in White (1938)
* At Your Orders, Madame (1939)
* We Were Seven Widows (1939)
* Defendant, Stand Up! (1939)
* Mille chilometri al minuto! (1939)
* Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei? (1939)
* Abandonment (1940)
* The Pirate's Dream (1940)
* Non me lo dire! (1940)
* Light in the Darkness (1941)
* Schoolgirl Diary (1941)
* I Live as I Please (1942)
* Invisible Chains (1942)
* The Three Pilots (1942)
* The Lady Is Fickle (1942)
* Sealed Lips (1942)
* Nothing New Tonight (1942)
* The Valley of the Devil (1943)
* Lively Teresa (1943)
* Anything for a Song (1943)
* The Last Wagon (1943)
* The Za-Bum Circus (1944)
* Life Begins Anew (1945)
* Departure at Seven  (1946)
* The Two Orphans (1947)
* Toto Tours Italy (1948)
* Fear and Sand (1948)
* Cab Number 13 (1948)
* Assunta Spina (1948)
* Little Lady (1949)
* The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)
* Adam and Eve (1949)
* Totò Tarzan (1950)
* The Merry Widower (1950)
* The Elusive Twelve (1950)
* The Cadets of Gascony (1950)
* Toto the Sheik (1950)
* Toto the Third Man (1951)
* The Steamship Owner (1951)
* Arrivano i nostri (1951)
* My Heart Sings (1951)
* Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
* Five Paupers in an Automobile (1952)
* Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
* Neapolitan Turk (1953)
* Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
* Funniest Show on Earth (1953)
* Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)
* Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
* The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
* Poverty and Nobility (1954)
* L'ultimo amante (1955)
* Eighteen Year Olds (1955)
* I giorni più belli (1956)
* Peppino, le modelle e chella là (1957)
* Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics (1958)
* Move and I'll Shoot (1958)
* Tipi da spiaggia (1959)
* Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
* Non perdiamo la testa (1959)
* Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959)
* Gentlemen Are Born (1960)
* Un mandarino per Teo (1960)
* Appuntamento a Ischia (1960)
* Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)
* Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
* Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)
* Appuntamento in riviera (1962)
* 5 marines per 100 ragazze (1962)
* Obiettivo ragazze (1963)
* Corpse for the Lady (1964)
* For a Few Dollars Less (1966)

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