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1960 film by Dino Risi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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| 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 |
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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 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."
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