| Il Mattatore | |
| Director: | Dino Risi |
| Producer: | Mario Cecchi Gori |
| Starring: | Vittorio Gassman Dorian Gray Peppino De Filippo Anna Maria Ferrero |
| Music: | Pippo Barzizza |
| Cinematography: | Massimo Dallamano |
| Editing: | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Runtime: | 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.[1]
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."