Love and Larceny (in Italian, Il mattatore, "The Showman") is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Gerardo is an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy. Due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, he is involved in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience resulted in him being the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison. There he encounters a vast array of petty criminals, devoted primarily to scams of various kinds. He befriends Chinotto, a con man for whom the doors of the prisons are like "revolving doors of a large hotel."

• Vittorio Gassman as Gerardo Latini
• Peppino De Filippo as De Rosa, aka "Chinotto"
• Dorian Gray as Elena
• Anna Maria Ferrero as Annalisa Rauseo
• Mario Carotenuto as Lallo Cortina
• Alberto Bonucci as Gloria Patri
• Fosco Giachetti as General Benito Mesci
• Luigi Pavese as The industrialist
• Nando Bruno as Owner of restaurant
• Linda Sini as Laura, wife of Chinotto

• Love and Larceny at IMDb