Love and Larceny (1960 film)

{{short description|1960 film by Dino Risi}} {{one source|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Il Mattatore | image = Il Mattatore.jpg | caption = | director = Dino Risi | producer = Mario Cecchi Gori | writer = Ettore Scola Sandro Continenza Ruggero Maccari Sergio Pugliese Age & Scarpelli | narrator = | starring = Vittorio Gassman Dorian Gray Peppino De Filippo Anna Maria Ferrero | music = Pippo Barzizza | cinematography = Massimo Dallamano | editing = Eraldo Da Roma | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1959|||Italy|1963|02|1|US}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }}

'''''Love and Larceny''''' (in Italian, '''''Il mattatore''''', "The Showman") is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adler |first=Renata |date=February 27, 1968 |title=Screen: 'San Gennaro':Italian Gem-Theft Film Is Pure Rhinestone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/27/archives/screen-san-gennaroitalian-gemtheft-film-is-pure-rhinestone.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260328122136/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/27/archives/screen-san-gennaroitalian-gemtheft-film-is-pure-rhinestone.html |archive-date=March 28, 2026 |access-date=March 28, 2026 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> 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 results 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

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== External links == * {{IMDb title | id = 0054068| title = Love and Larceny}}

Category:1960 films Category:Films set in Italy Category:Films set in Rome Category:1960 Italian-language films Category:1960 comedy films Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Dino Risi Category:Films about con artists Category:Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli Category:Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari Category:Italian comedy films Category:1960 Italian films Category:Italian-language comedy films