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...streets of postwar Rome. An unemployed workman gets a job which requires a bicycle. He pawns the family bedsheets to get his out of hock, loses it to a thief, and fails in a forlorn chase to get it back. For the central role, Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica hired a real workman: gaunt, sad-eyed Lamberto Maggiorani, 39, whose performance won international praise...
Last week, while. Manhattan moviegoers waited in line to see the picture, Maggiorani was in an unheated flat near Rome, playing the role of the buffeted worker all over again. But this time it was more realistic than even realist De Sica could make...
...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...
Hollywood will wait until March to award its Oscars for the movies' brightest achievements of 1949, but last week critical kibitzers everywhere had loosed their own showers of laurels. Two of the weightiest forums reached major agreement on one picture: Italian Director Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief won the National Board of Review's blessing as the year's best film, and the vote of the New York Film Critics as the best foreign-language movie...
...work in The Heiress. The critics' honors for direction went to Carol Reed's staging of The Fallen Idol. Ignoring actresses, the National Board chose Ralph Richardson as the best performer, for his roles in both The Fallen Idol and The Heiress, and singled out De Sica for the director's kudos...