IL Bidone - Dual Format Edition (Masters of Cinema)
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Federico Fellini followed up his iconic breakthrough La strada with this brilliant drama - an unsparing look at the dog-eat-dog values of post war Italian society that nonetheless manages to navigate expertly between the lightly comic and the emotionally stark to become one of his richest, most moving works. Il bidone [The Swindle] follows three small-time conmen - the ageing Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart), and Roberto (Franco Fabrizi) - as they prey upon the poor and gullible f