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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305908487
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6305908486
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 66013
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1962-10
Editorial Review:
Description:
In Fellini's sardonically humorous, yet powerfully dramatic 'Il Bidone,' three small-time crooks impersonate priests in Rome to con poor people out of their money. Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford is extraordinary as the group's world weary leader, whose chance meeting with his daughter opens his eyes to his wrongdoing. Too late, he suffers a crisis of conscience in this absorbing tale of hope, desperation and, finally, redemption. One of Fellini's most realistic films, 'Il Bidone' begins as an Italian comedy of errors, its swindles reminiscent of 'The Sting,' yet there is true sting in its harsh portrayal of greed and squalor. The middle chapter in Fellini's 'trilogy of loneliness' between 'La Strada' and 'Nights of Cabiria,' this classic film will tug at your heart and astonish you with its aching sense of compassion. Music by Nino Rota (The Godfather, Rocco and His Brothers).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The middle chapter in Fellini's "trilogy of loneliness",
The middle chapter in Fellini's "trilogy of loneliness", made by a master between "La Strada" (1954), and "Nights of Cabiria," (1957), "Il Bidone" (1955) is less known, for long time simply forgotten (and I can't imagine why) but powerful, humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant film. Broderick Crawford, Academy Award winner for playing Willie Stark, a corrupt politician and a charismatic man in "All the King's Men" (1949), gives a compelling performance as Augusto, an aging con man, a leader ... Read More
Rating:  - Fellini's Il Bidone
This is post World War II Fellini. Rudimentary and hard but fatally realistic. While possibly not as good as his later works, this was the original film that begot the Fellini style. Worth a look.
Rating: - Nothing to go crazy over
This is a simple film. Not really any thinking involved here. Not a bad film eithor. Don't get me wrong it's good but it just doesn't have the feel of some of his other films.
Rating: - I liked it
My friends hassled me for starting off my Fellini collection with Il Bidone but I've seen the classics and have pretty easy access to seeing them any time. Something a little bit more obscure like this one is harder to track down, so I figured that I'd buy it based on the reviews here. I wasn't disappointed. people were pretty accurate in their impressions. The story is told well, the acting is good and it's something that I lok forward to watching many more times.
Rating:  - Simple and elegant
Il Bidone is a stark, gritty, unyielding portrait of the life of small time con men in Rome. Augusto sees those who've escaped the rounds about him, at forty eight he is far past his prime and just beginning to realize that he has no idea to escape the rut. The movie is very spare, the cons not particularly interesting as cons, but very weighty in symbolism. The script is playful, sly and heartless, until Augusto bumps into his estranged daughter and begins to work his way back towards humanity. ... Read More
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