Bluebeard's Six Wives (Italian: Le sei mogli di Barbablù) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, and starring Totò, Isa Barzizza and Carlo Ninchi. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Mario Rappini.
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Plot
Toto Esposito is a young lover who tries to abduct his beloved to marry her. However, Toto is wrong, and kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him, and chases him when Toto escapes. In a last attempt to escape by train from Carmela, Totò meets his friend Amilcare and a beautiful American journalist named Lana Ross, and offers the two a deal. Toto and Amilcare have to pretend to be detectives, who are investigating the deaths of many girls in the hands of a serial killer nicknamed "Bluebeard". Toto has to be the main dish of deception, because he has to pretend to be the boyfriend of Lana, who in the meantime is trying to fool the murderous Bluebeard, pretending to be in love with him.
Cast
Totò as Totò Esposito
Isa Barzizza as Lana Ross
Arturo Bragaglia as Alvaro
Tino Buazzelli as Ladislau Zichetti / Barbablù
Aldo Bufi Landi as Il vero Patson
Mario Castellani as Amilcare
Carlo Ninchi as Nick Parter
Marcella Rovena as Silvana
Giorgio Costantini as Giorgio
Anna Di Lorenzo as Cameriera
Silvia Fazi as Domenica
Magda Forlenza as Maria
Enzo Garinei as Paesano
Franco Jamonte as Pecorino
Sofia Lazzaro as Ragazza rapita
Nino Marchesini as Ispettore
Arnaldo Mochetti as Giuseppe
Renato Navarrini as Renato
Eduardo Passarelli as Impresario Pompe Funebri
Luigi Pavese as Lucas
Mario Pisu as Sergio
Leonardo Bragaglia as primo fratello di Alvaro
Leo Garavaglia as secondo fratello di Alvaro
Giuseppe Recagno as dipendente Pompe Funebri
Erminio Spalla as L'Autista
Laura Tiberti as Laura