The Emperor of Capri (1949)
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
Director:
Luigi Comencini
Writers:
Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz, Luigi Comencini.
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Totò as Antonio De Fazio |
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Gianni Appelius as Bubi di Primaporta |
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Galeazzo Benti as Dodo della Baggina |
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Nerio Bernardi as Osvaldo |
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Mario Castellani as Asdrubale Stinchi |
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Pina Gallini as La suocera |
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Aldo Giuffrè as Omar Bey Kahn di Agapur |
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Laura Gore as Lucia |
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Alda Mangini as Emanuela |
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Nino Marchetti as Geremia |
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Marisa Merlini as La baronesa von Krapfen |
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Yvonne Sanson as Sonia Bulgarov |
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Pietro Tordi as Il marito di Emanuela |
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Toni Ucci as Pupetto Turacciolo |
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Ugo Mari as Cliente che si becca la Torta in Faccia (uncredited) |
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Aristide Catoni as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited) |
| Directing | Luigi Comencini | Director |
| Writing | Gino De Santis | Story |
| Camera | Giuseppe Caracciolo | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Marcello Marchesi | Screenplay |
| Editing | Otello Colangeli | Editor |
| Writing | Vittorio Metz | Screenplay |
| Writing | Teresa Ricci Bartolini | Story |
| Production | Pasquale Misiano | Production Manager |
| Production | Rudy Bauer | Production Manager |
| Writing | Luigi Comencini | Screenplay |
| Directing | Galeazzo Benti | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anna Maria Feo | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giuseppe Annunziata | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Guido Caracciolo | Camera Operator |
| Art | Carlo Egidi | Production Design |
| Art | Carlo Egidi | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Felice Montagnini | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kurt Doubrowsky | Sound |
| Directing | Paolo Heusch | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Silvio Clementelli | Production Manager |
| Production | Carlo Ponti | Producer |