What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
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

References

  1. Alberto Anile. I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita. Le mani, 1998. ISBN 8880120808.
  2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
  3. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.


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