Love and Larceny (1960 film)

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Il Mattatore
Il Mattatore.jpg
Directed by Dino Risi
Written by Ettore Scola
Sandro Continenza
Ruggero Maccari
Sergio Pugliese
Age & Scarpelli
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring Vittorio Gassman
Dorian Gray
Peppino De Filippo
Anna Maria Ferrero
Cinematography Massimo Dallamano
Edited by Eraldo Da Roma
Music by Pippo Barzizza
Release dates
  • 1959 (1959)(Italy)
  • February 1, 1963 (1963-02-01)(US)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Love and Larceny (in Italian, Il mattatore, "The Showman") is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. [1]

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Plot

Gerardo is an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy. Due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, he is involved in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience resulted in him being the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison. There he encounters a vast array of petty criminals, devoted primarily to scams of various kinds. He befriends Chinotto, a con man for whom the doors of the prisons are like "revolving doors of a large hotel."

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "IMDB.com: Awards for Il Mattatore". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-17.


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