Two Hearts Among the Beasts

Two Hearts Among the Beasts (Italian: Due cuori fra le belve) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Totò, Vera Carmi and Enrico Glori.^[1] A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa find a missing anthropologist whose daughter he is in love with.

Two Hearts Among the Beasts
Directed by	Giorgio Simonelli
Written by	Goffredo D'Andrea (novel) Vincenzo Rovi Ákos Tolnay Steno
Starring	Totò Vera Carmi Enrico Glori
Cinematography	Ugo Lombardi
Edited by	Giorgio Simonelli
Music by	Ezio Carabella Mario Ruccione
Production companies	Consorzio Tirrenia Film Bassoli Società Italiana Cines
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	26 May 1943 (1943-05-26)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The film's sets were designed by Alberto Boccianti. It was shot at Cinecittà in Rome.

Plot

An important Italian scientist disappears in the Jungle, and his niece Laura sets off to find him. Toto, dance teacher, ends up in the wrong steamer trip, and discovers that the companions of the niece have a sinister plan: kidnap her. The ship, however, is shipwrecked on the island of the Jungle, and Toto is worshiped as a god by the natives, and is then received by the dispersed scientist, who sees him as "the missing link in the evolutionary chain of mankind".

Cast

• Totò as Totò
• Vera Carmi as Laura Berti
• Enrico Glori as Mr. Smith
• Nando Bruno as "the little giant"
• Egilda Cecchini as Nalù the dancer queen of the cannibals
• Enzo Biliotti as Professor Lorenzo Berti
• Primo Carnera as Cannibal Chief
• Claudio Ermelli as Agatino
• Lia Orlandini as Clara Palozzi
• Giovanni Grasso as the head - chef
• Umberto Spadaro as the witch doctor
• Arturo Bragaglia as Doctor Palozzi
• Guido Morisi as Romero, Smith's partner in crime
• Federico Collino as Pietro, the technician
• Vittorio Bartozzi
• Oreste Bilancia
• Lucy D'Albert
• Stefano Daffinà
• Tullio Galvani
• Alfredo Martinelli
• Alfredo Ragusa