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Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thief (1949) typifies the post-war Italian film of realism; it shows simple, poor people enmeshed in an uncomplicated but terrifying trap. Unemployment, hunger and injustice close in on Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani); he commits an unsuccessful robbery and the film ends on a note of despair...
...greatest triumph of "The Bicycle Thief" is in its lucid picture of the relationship of father and son. Much, perhaps the greatest part of this success, is due to the superb acting of Lamberto Maggiorani as the tight -lipped, over whelmed father, and Enzo Staiola as his spirited boy. Both these non-professional actors are amazingly sure and penetrating in their characterizations...
Last week, when the New York Herald Tribune's Barrett McGurn cabled the sad story, Maggiorani needed work...
Would Director De Sica help? Well, he would give Maggiorani a job as a prop man in his next movie. "I don't think he has any future as an actor," De Sica said, "except occasionally in workmen's roles . . . I think he should go on with his regular...
...week's end Maggiorani got some help from the U.S., where movie fans prefer a happy ending. Manhattan's Italian-language radio station WOV cabled its Rome studio to hire him as an apprentice recording technician, and perhaps give him work as an actor. While Giuseppina held out for a real acting job, Maggiorani gratefully considered the offer...