Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
- fortune teller
- rome
- italy
- italy
- black market
- juvenile prison
- orphan
- juvenile delinquent
- post world war ii
- military police
- shoeshine boy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Franco Interlenghi
Pasquale Maggi
Rinaldo Smordoni
Giuseppe Filippucci
Annielo Mele
Raffaele
Bruno Ortenzi
Arcangeli
- Emilio Cigoli — Staffera
- Gino Saltamerenda — il Panza (uncredited)
- Peppino Spadaro — L'avvocato Bonavino (uncredited)
- Antonio Nicotra — Bartoli, l'assistente sociale (uncredited)
- Leo Garavaglia — il commissario (uncredited)
- Directed
- Vittorio De Sica
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 276 ratings
- Studio
- Societa Cooperativa Alfa Cinematografica
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
