What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
| What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? | |
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| Directed by | Ottavio Alessi |
| Produced by |
Alberto Pugliese Luciano Ercoli |
| Written by |
Ottavio Alessi Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi |
| Starring | Totò |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Sergio d'Offizi |
Release dates | 1964 |
Running time | 101 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (Italian: Che fine ha fatto Totò Baby?) is a 1964 Italian black comedy film written and directed by Ottavio Alessi. It is a parody of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.[1][2][3]
Plot
A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse. In an attempt to discard the suitcase they mistakenly exchange it with the one of two German hitchhikers, Helga and Inga.
Forced to retrieve the "corpus delicti" they are discovered by Count Mischa who blackmail them: in exchange for his silence with the police, they will help him to kill his rich wife. After killing the woman, and following a binge of marjuana mistaken for lettuce by the brothers, Baby Toto will turn into a sadist serial killer. After killing the Count and a half-dozen people, he will soon start torturing his brother.
Cast
- Totò as Baby Toto / Baby Toto's father
- Pietro De Vico as Pietro
- Mischa Auer as Count Mischa
- Alvaro Alvisi as Police Commissioner
- Ivy Holzer as Inga
- Alicia Brandet as Helga
- Gina Mascetti as Mischa's wife
- Mario Castellani as The director of the orphanage
- Olimpia Cavalli as Baby Toto's stepmother
- Peppino De Martino as The Maresciallo
- Franco Ressel as The American Official
References
- ↑ Alberto Anile. I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita. Le mani, 1998. ISBN 8880120808.
- ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
- ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.