L'eroe della strada

L'eroe della strada is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Erminio Macario.

Plot

Felice Manetti, a poor, unemployed man, is accused of stealing a barrel organ. Saved by the testimony of Gaetano, a con man who pretends to be a former partisan, then Felice falls in love with a cigarette girl whose husband went missing in war.

Cast

Erminio Macario as Felice Manetti
Carlo Ninchi as Gaetano Salvatore
Delia Scala as Giulietta Marchi
Folco Lulli as Head of the Workers
Piero Lulli as Paolo
Monica Egg as Paulette Jones
Cesare Costarelli as Comm. Zanotti
Carlo Rizzo as Political Agitator
Arnoldo Foà as Prosecutor