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Here is the question:
I can not remenber the title or seem to find the movie where he was pretending to be a doctor... it's an hilarious one.
I would love to find it, if anyone has any idea.
Thanks.
PS.
I love Toto movies, and specially since my father had the chance to meet him at the army when they were young, and became friends. We have great pictures of them toghther.
I can not remenber the title or seem to find the movie where he was pretending to be a doctor... it's an hilarious one.
I would love to find it, if anyone has any idea.
Thanks.
PS.
I love Toto movies, and specially since my father had the chance to meet him at the army when they were young, and became friends. We have great pictures of them toghther.
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 2:10 PMIt would be a great gift for my father's birthday.
Thanks again.
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 3:31 PMI only know Toto from a couple Pasolini films and his bit part in Big Deal on Madonna Street, but I found this website devoted to him. Here's a page listing many of his films, perhaps a title or the synopsis, if you can read Italian, may jog your memory. Good luck.
www.antoniodecurtis.com/index.htm
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 3:40 PMJudging by the title and image is it possibly il Medico dei Pazzi you have in mind?
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 4:15 PMThank you for your link.
I don't think that's the movie though.
Toto was actually a surgeon, all in white, and doing surgery.
I thought the title was something like: "The Doctor In Spite of Himself" but I can not seem to find anything close to it, anywhere.... -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 4:43 PMhe was inpersonnating or mistaken for a surgeon. He actually perform some surgery, but it was so hilarious to see him trying to fake knowing. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 5:16 PMThere's a forum on that website. You might try posting your query there. From what I understand he's wildly popular in Italy, someone ought to recognize the film. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 6:23 PMGood idea, I had not seen that forum.
Will see what they get for me, I will let you know.
Toto was and still is widly popular. He was a sweet heart, generous, funny and so modest. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 7:45 PMI'll have to check out his work. He gets compared to Buster Keaton, who I love, and he's also part of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, which also appeals to me.
I wonder whether someone like Nichetti is in some ways the heir of Toto. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 7:56 PMI urge you to do it, but please still breath while you laugh, it's gonna be hard though.
His is totally from the "Comedia del'Arte" tradition, being from Napoli. Speaking of Buster Keaton, which I love too, I think he could be the talking Buster Keaton, maybe. They have a similar tragic-comic long face.
Who is Nichetti? -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 8:35 PMMaurizio Nichetti, Italian comic tv star, I think, and director/actor of such films as The Icicle Thief and Volere Volare, among others.
What Toto films would you recommend for a novice. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Mon, April 25, 2005 - 9:15 PMIt's a good question.
He did a lot of movies and I do not remember the best one, because I mostly saw them as a kid. Except for the one I'm looking for right now, I study it at our video class, ten years ago.
But there is of course the great Pasolini, which you know already, and other movies for which I found good reviews on an italian site:
www.internetbookshop.it/dvd/se...pge.asp
"Uccellacci e uccellini", Italia, 1966, by Pier Paolo Pasolini
"La legge è legge" (La loi c'est la loi), by Christian-Jacques, with Totò; Fernandel ... great french comic.
"Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare"
"Il monaco di Monza", Italia, 1963, by Sergio Corbucci.
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Tue, April 26, 2005 - 12:40 AMThanks for the info. I'll look for those. That one with Fernandel is supposed to be one of Toto's best.
For some reason, I was thinking that Toto was in that one slapstick segment (The Cook's Tale?) of Pasolini's Canterbury Tales as well, but I don't see him listed in the credits. -
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Tue, April 26, 2005 - 10:21 AMI'm not surprised that "La loi, c'est la loi" is supposed to be his best, because Fernandel is a scream, any of his movies are a joy.
Fernandel could be considered Toto's French conterpart .
Regarding "The Cook's Tale", I don't remember it. I have to check it out. -
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Re: Toto fan out there..
Tue, April 26, 2005 - 3:14 PMI looked up The Canterbury Tales and the Chaplinesque fellow I thought was Toto was actually someone named Ninetto Davoli.
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