Love and Larceny (1960 film)

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

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.

Plot

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience means that he is the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison, where 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

• Vittorio Gassman ... Gerardo Latini
• Peppino De Filippo ... De Rosa, aka "Chinotto"
• Dorian Gray ... Elena
• Anna Maria Ferrero ... Annalisa Rauseo
• Mario Carotenuto ... Lallo Cortina
• Alberto Bonucci ... Gloria Patri
• Fosco Giachetti ... General Benito Mesci
• Luigi Pavese ... The industrialist
• Nando Bruno ... Owner of restaurant
• Linda Sini ... Laura, wife of Chinotto

External links

• Il Mattatore at IMDb