aristocratic gullibility. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jean Harrington, a con artist aboard a cruise ship with her "father"
Colonel Harrington (Charles Colburn) and partner-in-crime Gerald (Melville Cooper). Jean spots Charles Pike (Henry
Fonda) as an easy mark. As Jean works Charles over, they both realize they have fallen in love. What follows is a plot
full of mistaken identity, con artists at their conniving best, and a neat love story at its center.
streets in Rome. They are poor but happy
best friends, who work hard to provide for
their families and are saving their money
to purchase a horse. To make a little more
money, the boys agree to sell stolen goods,
setting off a chain of events that threaten
to unravel their own idyllic lives. One of
the directors who helped create the Italian
Neorealist style, de Sica's film reflects the
actual working and living conditions of
Italians under Mussolini and fascism.