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Release Date: 1955

Cast: Maria Zanoli, Giacomo Gabrielli, Mara Werlen, Sue Ellen Blake, Riccardo Garrone, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Xenia Valderi, Irene Cefaro, Broderick Crawford, Alberto De Amicis, Lorella De Luca ...MORE

Cast: Maria Zanoli, Giacomo Gabrielli, Mara Werlen, Sue Ellen Blake, Riccardo Garrone, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Xenia Valderi, Irene Cefaro, Broderick Crawford, Alberto De Amicis, Lorella De Luca, Richard Basehart ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white, World cinema, Crime Drama

Il bidone (English: The Swindle and The Swindlers) (1955) is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others. Released one year after the director's internationally successful La strada, Il bidone continues with many of the same socially conscious, neorealist-inspired themes while minimizing the poetic realism and extravagant vitality that is today is known as "felliniesque" in favor of a more pointed political stance. The film follows the exploits of a group of swindlers, focusing on their aging leader Augusto,... MORE

Il bidone (English: The Swindle and The Swindlers) (1955) is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others. Released one year after the director's internationally successful La strada, Il bidone continues with many of the same socially conscious, neorealist-inspired themes while minimizing the poetic realism and extravagant vitality that is today is known as "felliniesque" in favor of a more pointed political stance. The film follows the exploits of a group of swindlers, focusing on their aging leader Augusto, as they go about their "business," reaping both rewards and consequences. It is episodic, with scenes of various swindles (such as dressing up as clergy to cheat an old woman out of her money, or pretending to be government workers to pull a con amongst the poor and homeless) followed by scenes of the aftermath. Film critic Bosley Crowther, gave the film a mixed review calling it "a cheap crime thriller." He added, "For this film, which is often mentioned in estimations of the master's works, is notable as a false step in his movement toward the development of a type of story material...But it LESS