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]
Il Mattatore | |
---|---|
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 (Italy) February 1, 1963 (US) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
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 he is 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."
This article related to an Italian comedy film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |