Love and Larceny (1960 film)

1960 film by Dino Risi

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 (1959) (Italy) February 1, 1963 (1963-02-01) (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 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

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

References

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

External links

Love and Larceny at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Dino Risi
Vacation with a Gangster (1951) Il viale della speranza (1953) Love in the City (1953) The Sign of Venus (1955) Scandal in Sorrento (1955) Poor, But Handsome (1957) Pretty But Poor (1957) Oh! Sabella (1957) Venice, the Moon and You (1958) Poor Millionaires (1958) The Widower (1959) Love and Larceny (1960) Love in Rome (1960) A Difficult Life (1961) Behind Closed Doors (1961) Il Sorpasso (1962) March on Rome (1962) I mostri (1963) The Thursday (1964) The Dolls (1965) The Gaucho (1965) Complexes (1965) Weekend, Italian Style (1965) I nostri mariti (1966) Treasure of San Gennaro (1966) The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) Mr. Kinky (1968) Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968) I See Naked (1969) Normal Young Man (1969) The Priest's Wife (1970) That's How We Women Are (1971) In the Name of the Italian People (1971) Dirty Weekend (1973) How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973) Scent of a Woman (1974) The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) The Forbidden Room (1977) The Bishop's Bedroom (1977) Viva Italia! (1977) First Love (1978) Dear Father (1979) I'm Photogenic (1980) Sunday Lovers (1980) Fantasma d'amore (1981) Sesso e volentieri (1982) Good King Dagobert (1984) Madman at War (1985) Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986) Teresa (1987) I'll Be Going Now (1990) Vita coi figli (1991) Poor But Beautiful (1996)

Films directed by Dino Risi

Vacation with a Gangster (1951)
Il viale della speranza (1953)
Love in the City (1953)
The Sign of Venus (1955)
Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
Poor, But Handsome (1957)
Pretty But Poor (1957)
Oh! Sabella (1957)
Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
Poor Millionaires (1958)
The Widower (1959)
Love and Larceny (1960)
Love in Rome (1960)
A Difficult Life (1961)
Behind Closed Doors (1961)
Il Sorpasso (1962)
March on Rome (1962)
I mostri (1963)
The Thursday (1964)
The Dolls (1965)
The Gaucho (1965)
Complexes (1965)
Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
I nostri mariti (1966)
Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Mr. Kinky (1968)
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968)
I See Naked (1969)
Normal Young Man (1969)
The Priest's Wife (1970)
That's How We Women Are (1971)
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
Dirty Weekend (1973)
How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
Scent of a Woman (1974)
The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
The Forbidden Room (1977)
The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
Viva Italia! (1977)
First Love (1978)
Dear Father (1979)
I'm Photogenic (1980)
Sunday Lovers (1980)
Fantasma d'amore (1981)
Sesso e volentieri (1982)
Good King Dagobert (1984)
Madman at War (1985)
Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
Teresa (1987)
I'll Be Going Now (1990)
Vita coi figli (1991)
Poor But Beautiful (1996)

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