The Three-Cornered Hat (film)
The Three-Cornered Hat (Italian: Il cappello a tre punte, also spelled as Three Cornered Hat) is a 1935 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. It is a Naples-set adaptation of the Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's novella with the same name.[1][2][3]
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Directed by | Mario Camerini |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato |
Written by | Ercole Patti Ivo Perilli Mario Soldati |
Starring | Eduardo De Filippo Peppino De Filippo |
Music by | Ernesto Tagliaferri Nicola Valente |
Cinematography | Massimo Terzano |
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Language | Italian |
The film was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome.
Plot
In the seventeenth century the Spanish governor of Naples harassed the population. Among the populace he notices a beautiful miller whom he falls in love with; to seduce her, she puts Luca, her husband, in jail, but he manages to escape and even disguises himself as a governor and penetrates the palace up to the governor's bedroom. Meanwhile, his wife Carmela manages to hold off the governor who has gone to the mill. The governor and Luca agree to punish the cheater who, when he returns home, is unable to be opened by the guards who treat him as an impostor.
Cast
- Eduardo De Filippo as Don Teofilo, The Governor
- Peppino De Filippo as Luca
- Leda Gloria as Carmela
- Dina Perbellini as Donna Dolores
- Enrico Viarisio as Garduna
- Arturo Falconi as il capitano della guardia
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Pasqualino, il mugnaio
- Cesare Zoppetti as Salvatore
- Gorella Gori as Concettina
- Mauro Serra as Carlone
- Tina Pica as Assunta
- Cesare Barbetti as Don Teofilo's Son
References
- Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005. ISBN 8884403510.
- Enrico Giacovelli, Enrico Lancia. I film di Peppino De Filippo. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876056343.
- Gino Moliterno. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN 0810868962.