Mario Mattoli

The plot involves poverty-stricken Felice and his friend, don Pasquale, masquerading as aristocratic relatives of a young woman in order to get her parents approval for a marriage to a young prince. (neac.eat-online.net)

A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw. (imdb)

Totò stars in this spoof of Cecil B. De Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde. (imdb)

Carlo is in love with Gabriella and he decides to marry her. She agrees but some problems begin when their parents meet. Giuseppe D'Amore and Antonio Cocuzza take at once a dislike to each other and begin fighting over everything. The marriage is then called off and Carlo and Gabriella decide to fly away... Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia (imdb)

Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).

Totò, one of Italy's all-time great comedians, stars as a Neopolitan petty criminal named Don Felice... (imdb)

Don Felice, the mayor of Roccasecca, has been tricked by his nephew Ciccillo. Ciccillo has told his uncle that he is taking a medical degree in psychiatry when in truth he has been using his money for good times. Having twice wormed money from his uncle, Ciccillo again needs money to pay his gambling debts. He pretends that his boardinghouse is his clinic and the other tenants his patients. By accident Don Felice is frightened to find himself in the "asylum" alone with the "inmates."

Three Explorers,Stanis, Spartaco and Iva are excited to hear that there's a strange creature, a kind of white ape man called Tarzan (Totò), who lives in heart of the jungle. Using Iva as bait they're able to capture him, but their excitement is rather curtailed when they discover that he's a pretty handy speaker of Italian. In fact, they discover that he is actually the son of a wealthy adventurer who accidentally left him in the jungle back when he was a child... (thewildeye)

Comedy about the rivalry of two brothers in love and business during the Universal Exhibition in Rome, in 1911. (bfi)

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family and succeeds in stealing their silver cutlery. (imdb)

In Paris, in 1865, in an orphan-asylun everyone is an orphan. The girls, of course, the headmistress, the dog and the two watchmen, Gasparre and Battista: each of them is an orphan. Gasparre and Battista decide to look for an orphan's father so she can marry. They go to a chiromancer to seek advise and Gasparre finds out he is the son of a count... (imdb)

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.... (imdb)

This time the dynamic two have managed to get themselves locked up in a mental asylum and are trying to persuade the supervisor that their wives had forced them to dress up as clowns and ask for donations on the street to raise money for charity. The two were actually doing well until they decided to collect from passing car drivers and caused the most almighty traffic jam. It was then that they were cessied off to the looney bin... (movie-time)

Comedy about little girl who cleverly arranges her father's remarriage.

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. The youth however gives the money to a dishonest girl he's in love with who gives it to her delinquent boy-friend. But when everybody seems to be in trouble because of his behaviour Marco... (imdb)

Four penniless friends go to Rimini a famous Italian beach resort because they want to forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends. (imdb)

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crashlands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Four former soldiers meet and reminesce 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. (imdb)

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? (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Series of music-hall sketches etc. (bfi)

Totò, a former butler, joins the Foreign Legion and is taken prisoner by a sheik.(bfi)

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl. (imdb)

Imputato, alzatevi! is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario.

In this 1954 comedy, siren Sophia Loren plays two roles: Cleopatra and the slave girl who doubles for her. Every night, the Egyptian queen beds the soldier who guards her door, but the price he pays is his life. So, when a Roman soldier (played by Italian comedy king Alberto Sordi) is placed on Cleopatra's detail but becomes smitten with her look-alike slave instead, romantic complications put a wrinkle on this strange tradition. (netflix)

The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack.... and from then on a bad idea gets worse.

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.

The roman coachman Totò doesn't want his coach being replaced by cars and doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with the taxi driver Roberto. But it is Roberto who saves him when he gets into trouble.

Life Begins Anew (Italian: La vita ricomincia) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the second most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after Roberto Rossellini's Paisan.

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.

Ercole Piazza, a rich widower, tries in every way to find a husband to the mocking daughter Adriana in order to live freely. The only one willing to accept the hand of the capricious girl is the smiling and patient Pio.