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...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoes/tine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
...unusual success of the post-war Italian film has been with proletarian tragedy. Its shoeshine boys and unemployed slum-dwellers are caught up in vast economic forces beyond their comprehension or control. Both Rossellini and de Sica had only to step out in the street to find actors who had already lived the roles. But Rossellini had to depart from the sociological for the psychological to give Miss Bergman a role with depth enough for her talents...
...June, 1948 Rospigliosi received an excited phone call from Paolo Tamburella, producer of the laureled Italian movie, Shoeshine, directed by Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica. Tamburella had shelved the picture he was shooting-a long, drawn-out story of Faust. In a discussion with an associate about their next venture, they suddenly recalled the Clock Fight story in TIME. They went to the American library in Rome and thumbed through back issues of TIME until they found the story. Having read it again, they agreed that it would make a first-rate movie...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...