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Animali pazzi (1939)
5/10
Silly, Crude, but it's Toto
4 December 2020
Toto was one of the funniest screen comics so even a lesser early vehicle like this one (only his second film) carries a certain amount of kooky humor and charm. Here he seizes the opportunity of a dual role, a starving man about to kill himself who is paid to substitute for his look alike, a baron unable to extricate himself from a clinging mistress, in preparations for a wedding. (If the baron doesn't appear at the wedding in time, an inheritance goes instead to a hospital for animals with psychological problems!) The comedy is often clumsy because of crude direction, with shots awkwardly edited together. But it moves briskly with a running time of just over an hour, and the resulting programmer,if frivolous, must have amused audiences of the time in an Italy getting ready for WWII.
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