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...hero (Vittorio Gassman), an artful dodger in need of some new shoes, strolls into a shoe store and tries on an expensive pair. "They look dark in this light," he murmurs, and permits the salesgirl to urge him toward the front door, where he carefully inspects the leather in the sunlight. A tomato, flung by an accomplice on the sidewalk, smacks him in the face. "Why, you punk!" the hero roars, and as the salesgirl stares in confusion he furiously pursues his assailant down the street and around the corner, running quite well for a man in a new pair...
...Salvatori) is a successful baby-carriage thief. Another (Carlo Pisacane) is an old and toothless messenger boy. The third (Marcello Mastroianni) is a no-talent photographer, the fourth (Tiberio Murgia) a fiery Sicilian who thinks that everybody is trying to seduce his unmarried sister (Claudia Cardinale), the fifth (Vittorio Gassman) a preliminary bum who never hits anything but the canvas. Only the sixth (Toto), a renowned but senile safecracker, has any previous criminal experience, and when he sees the quality of his confederates, he pockets his consultant fee ($80) and backs inconspicuously out of the deal...
Film Producer Carlo Ponti and Actor Vittorio Gassman are waiting this week-and probably will be for many more-to hear whom they are married to, if anyone. So is a British petty officer named William, whose German wife Olga claimed she had taken a vow of chastity and refused to have sexual intercourse with him, but nevertheless presented him with a child. So is Nick, a Manhattan Sicilian, who claims the Mafia frightened him into marrying 14-year-old Tonina. Their marital fates-and those of many other Roman Catholics throughout the world-are being decided by Rome...
...earth is fleeing the solar system too. Anyway, pretty soon a couple of gypsies (Katina Paxinou and Walter Slezak) drag the heroine off to live in their filthy caravan, where she hears that her dragoon is dead. She renounces religion and gives herself to a gypsy prince (Vittorio Gassman...
...cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over recent years." Wrote the News Chronicle's Michael Gassman: "There should be no scare that the Yanks are coming. They are already here...