Two Hearts Among the Beasts
Two Hearts Among the Beasts (Italian: Due cuori fra le belve) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Totò, Vera Carmi and Enrico Glori. A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa find a missing anthropologist whose daughter he is in love with.
Plot
An important Italian scientist disappears in the Jungle, and his niece Laura sets off to find him. Toto, dance teacher, ends up in the wrong steamer trip, and discovers that the companions of the niece have a sinister plan: kidnap her. The ship, however, is shipwrecked on the island of the Jungle, and Toto is worshiped as a god by the natives, and is then received by the dispersed scientist, who sees him as "the missing link in the evolutionary chain of mankind".
More details
| author | Akos Tolnay Stefano Vanzina |
|---|---|
| director | Giorgio Simonelli |
| editor | Giorgio Simonelli |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | dance teacher missing link shipwreck |
| musicBy | Ezio Carabella |
| productionCompany | Consorzio Tirrenia Film Bassoli Società Italiana Cines |
| publisher | Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche |