"La paura numero uno" di Eduardo e Ghirelli

Un trattamento inedito per un film con Totò

Abstract

During the Fifties, the Neapolitan playwright Eduardo De Filippo experienced an intense activity in the !lm industry, working as an actor, writing screenplays and adapting and directing for the screen some of his most famous masterpieces. Among the unrealized projects, he also developed with Antonio Ghirelli the !lm treatment of La paura numero uno, an adaptation of the pièce staged in 1950 for a movie that should star the comedian Totò. Such a project, probably aborted because it was blocked by censorship, offers a special insight in Eduardo’s screenwriting techniques and in the strong interaction between theatre and cinema in his long career.