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Toto Tours Italy
Film poster
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Written by	Vittorio Metz Marcello Marchesi
Produced by	Lorenzo Pegoraro
Starring	Totò Isa Barzizza Giuditta Rissone Fulvia Franco
Cinematography	Tino Santoni
Edited by	Giuliana Attenni
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	ENIC
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	30 December 1948 (1948-12-30)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Toto Tours Italy (Italian: Totò al giro d'Italia) is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. Location shooting took place around Italy including in Bologna and Milan. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

The film features cameos of famous cyclists and other sportsmen of the time: Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Ferdi Kubler, Giordano Cottur, Gianni Ortelli, Oreste Conte, Adolfo Consolini, Louison Bobet, Briek Schotte, Amos Matteucci, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Ulisse Lorenzetti, Di Segni, Amadeo Deiana, Aldo Spoldi, Giuseppe Tosi, Camillo Achilli and Tazio Nuvolari.

Plot

Totò Casamandrei, a middle-aged high school professor, sells his soul to the Devil to win the Giro d'Italia and impress the young Doriana, a cycling fan.

Cast

Totò as Prof. Toto' Casamandrei
Isa Barzizza as Doriana
Giuditta Rissone as Signora Casamandrei
Fulvia Franco as Miss Italia
Walter Chiari as Bruno
Carlo Ninchi as Dante Alighieri
Luigi Catoni as Nerone
Mario Castellani as Renato Stella, allenatore
Carlo Micheluzzi as Il Diavolo
Alda Mangini as Gervasia
Ughetto Bertucci as Armando
Gino Bartali as himself
Fausto Coppi as himself

References

"New York Times: Totò al giro d'Italia". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2008.

Bibliography

Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.

External links

Totò al giro d'Italia at IMDb

v t e 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)

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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