THE SWINDLE (Il Bidone) (1955) - ♦♦♦

Directed by - Federico Fellini

 

Written by - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli

 

Starring - Broderick Crawford, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart

 

 

 

"Fellini’s film is a portrait of a group of swindlers who prey on the poor and ignorant people of the Italian countryside. The film can be comical a times, but it’s really a dark and cold crime drama. However, it is the most straight forward and hence paradoxically one of the least interesting in Fellini’s filmography, as well as one that possibly represents the filmmaker least."

 

 

Comedy, Italy/France