Elio Petri was a writer like many other Italians who then turned to directing. This is a positively superb thriller with Mastroiani at the very top of his game during the period of so many 1960's successes. Marcello is quite another actor in this film as a pretty low down piece of scum who like many offenders likes his games with authority. Young or old, Mastroiani proves how great an actor he really was!
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