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Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman, cast as a con man, is wacky and wicked in an Italian comedy that is ditto...
Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman, cast as a con man, is wacky and wicked in an Italian comedy that is ditto...
Love and Larceny. "The fool banks in the crook's pocket." The old Italian proverb is wittily illustrated in this new Italian film: a merry little con manual that might serve equally for the instruction of rogues and the sophistication of innocents abroad. Educative excerpts...
Gassman is hilarious in all his disguises -wax teeth, putty neb, store hair, tape-on tummy-but most hilarious as the con man conned by a girl friend (Anna Maria Ferrero) who does the wedding bit with phony jewels-and a real priest...
...publishers, but reporters are part of this profession too. and if. failing to make an honorable peace, we acquiesce in the proposition that news is a dispensable commodity like soap, then we shall be treated like soap peddlers and deserve it. Values and duties have become so con fused that even the suggestion of publishing without the consent of the unions is now regarded as a declaration of war. How the old editors who founded our press would have hooted at that...