Il Turco Napoletano (1953)
Directed by Mario Mattoli
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Based on a stage play by Eduardo Scarpetta, Il Turco Napoletano is retooled into a vehicle for Italian comedian Toto. The star plays a girl-happy dolt who assumes the identity of a missing Turkish gentleman. With stolen identification papers, the oafish impostor enters the home of a wealthy man who'd hired the Turk to protect his wife and daughter. What our hero doesn't know--but everybody else does--is that the real Turk is a eunuch. To avoid the scissors of the censors, Il Turco Napoletano is presented as a play-within-a-play, so it isn't really happening after all. The film was lensed by Oscar-winning Hollywood cinematographer Karl Struss.
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assumed-identity, man, bodyguard, eunuch