Love and Larceny (1960 film)

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