Mario Mattoli

Directing

Mario Mattoli

Born — Died

1898-11-30 — 1980-02-26

Place of birth

Tolentino, Marche, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Mario Mattoli (30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966. His 1939 film Defendant, Stand Up! was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

Poverty and Nobility poster
8.0

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

Poverty and Nobility

1954

Two Nights with Cleopatra poster
4.9

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.

Two Nights with Cleopatra

1954

Totò Story poster
6.4

A hilarious anthology of scenes from some of the most famous films starring the great Totò, the prince of Italian comedy.

Totò Story

1968

5 Marines for 100 Girls poster
5.9

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military maneuvers. They're 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.

5 Marines for 100 Girls

1961

I cadetti di Guascogna poster
6.5

Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.

I cadetti di Guascogna

1950

Totò Seeks Peace poster
6.5

Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.

Totò Seeks Peace

1954

Totò Seeks Peace poster
6.5

Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.

Totò Seeks Peace

1954

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today poster
7.2

A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

1960

Non perdiamo la testa poster
6.2

A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.

Non perdiamo la testa

1959

Luce nelle tenebre poster
8.0

Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.

Luce nelle tenebre

1941

Luce nelle tenebre poster
8.0

Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.

Luce nelle tenebre

1941

Eighteen Year Olds poster
6.0

Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.

Eighteen Year Olds

1955

Damn the Taxes!! poster
7.0

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.

Damn the Taxes!!

1951

Damn the Taxes!! poster
7.0

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.

Damn the Taxes!!

1951

Damn the Taxes!! poster
7.0

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.

Damn the Taxes!!

1951

Toto the Third Man poster
6.5

In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.

Toto the Third Man

1951

The Firemen of Viggiù poster
5.7

In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.

The Firemen of Viggiù

1949

Toto Tours Italy poster
6.5

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.

Toto Tours Italy

1948

L'inafferrabile 12 poster
7.2

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.

L'inafferrabile 12

1950

Il padrone del vapore poster
7.0

A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.

Il padrone del vapore

1951

Beach Types poster
6.8

Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.

Beach Types

1959

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare poster
6.7

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

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

1961

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà poster
8.5

Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà

1957

Appointment in Ischia poster
6.2

Famous singer Mimmo is a widower with a daughter, Letizia, to whom will give a mother. But the girl does not accept the current girlfriend of her father, growing fond of a young man, who wants as mother. The child creates many situations, such as coming to Ischia for treatment with mud, so that the two would meet and fall in love.

Appointment in Ischia

1960

Siamo tutti inquilini poster
6.5

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

Siamo tutti inquilini

1953

For a Few Dollars Less poster
4.2

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

For a Few Dollars Less

1966

Ai vostri ordini, signora... poster
9.0

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

Ai vostri ordini, signora... poster
9.0

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

Assunta Spina poster
7.2

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

Assunta Spina

1948

Guardatele ma non toccatele poster
7.0

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.

Guardatele ma non toccatele

1959

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche poster
6.6

A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

1958

The Lucky Five poster
7.4

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?

The Lucky Five

1952

Il medico dei pazzi poster
7.1

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Il medico dei pazzi

1954

Il medico dei pazzi poster
7.1

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Il medico dei pazzi

1954

Stasera niente di nuovo poster
7.0

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.

Stasera niente di nuovo

1942

Stasera niente di nuovo poster
7.0

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.

Stasera niente di nuovo

1942

Nonna Felicita poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nonna Felicita

1938

Nonna Felicita poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nonna Felicita

1938

Gentlemen Are Born poster
7.0

Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.

Gentlemen Are Born

1960

Vendetta... sarda poster
7.0

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.

Vendetta... sarda

1952