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The Passionate Thief: Directed by Mario Monicelli. With Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara, Fred Clark. Tortorella tries to spend New Year's Eve with her wealthy friends, but ends up with an actor in decay and a pickpocket.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mario Monicelli
- 1960-10-13
The Passionate Thief (Italian: Risate di gioia) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Anna Magnani and Totò and Ben Gazzara.
Dec 4, 2014 · A restored version of Mario Monicelli’s 1960 film, “The Passionate Thief,” is having its first New York theatrical run at Film Forum.
- Mario Monicelli
Apr 14, 2015 · Based on short stories by famed author Alberto Moravia ( The Conformist; Two Women; Contempt) and adapted by Suso Cecchi D’amico (Visconti’s regular screenwriter) along with Monicelli’s regular scribes Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, The Passionate Thief plays like a situational screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s.
The Passionate Thief is a 1960 comedy drama film written by Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli and directed by Mario...
Magnani, as a blonde film extra that has Kim Novak as her model, Totò as a pathetic, old petty con-man and Ben Gazzara as a young, good looking and relatively inept thief, will join forces at cross purposes in a film that is, simultaneously, outrageously funny and deeply moving.
Directed by MARIO MONICELLI. Starring ANNA MAGNANI, BEN GAZZARA and TOTÒ. NEW 4K RESTORATION. OFFICIAL SELECTION 2014 TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL. NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK. Risate di Gioia (1960) “Miracolo! Miracolo!” bellows desperate-to-be-noticed extra Anna Magnani, amid cardboard sets on yet another cheapo spear-and-scandal epic at Cinecittà.
