"Shoeshine" "That horse is a great horse." "Yeah, he's areally great horse." "As soon as I said, "Go, Bersagliere, "" "he started off like a rocket." "I don't think there is another one like that." " Not even in America." " That's nonsense." "In America..." "Who knows how much they feed horses over there!" "I told you not to leave the horse when you come down." " You call this a horse?" " And what is it?" "It's a small table." "Mr. Anucci, that one is always kidding around!" " Is the proposal still good?" " 50 or nothing." " But 50 bills are 50 bills." " What are they?" "Only paper !" "Easy to say !" "Everybody thinks since we're shoeshine boys we make money by the bundle." "Come on, let's go!" "Is it really expensive to have a horse?" "At least 300 lira a day." "Goodness, Bersagliere, how expensive you are!" "Mr. Anucci, 50 is okay, but know we are a little short." " Can we do it in a week?" " It's okay with me." " Your word?" " My word." " Your word?" " My word." " Goodbye, Mr. Anucci." " Goodbye." "It's right." "Until the horse is ours, he can rent it out to anybody he wishes." "How much do we have on hand?" "I'm not sure, 32, 35." "Why don't you know?" "I told you to be accurate!" "You'r e right, but this morning I made a lot of payments." "Here." "Five, 10." "I made all stacks of five." "That's good." "15, 20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 500." "Plus 7, 500 for the guy from Genoa." "And the 3,700 for the porter's lodge." "33, 500 plus 3,700 and 7, 500... we are short 5, 300 lira." "Marcello, did the stuff arrive?" "No, not yet!" "It's already a week that the prick tells me," ""Tomorrow, tomorrow." And in the meantime, he gets his shoes shined." "When you bring?" "Tomorrow!" "To you and your mother !" "These pay, you know?" "Hey, Pasquale, do you want to buy this?" "No, they'r e just a headache." "You can't hide them or cover them up." "Forget it, someone else will buy them." "Let's go." "What kind of a fool are you, laughing all by yourself?" "I'm thinking that one eats mor e than we do." " Who?" " The horse!" "Right, Shoeshine Joe?" "How can we do it?" "I've been thinking about taking him by the one at Port San Sebastian." "That one will starve him to death!" "Right, we wer e born y ester day !" "After work, we go and have him f ed in front of us." "Yes, but that way he would eat only once!" "I didn't think about that." "I could sleep in the stable." " And me?" " Right, and at your house?" "No one will cry if I fr ee up the space." "We'll see!" "For the moment let's worry about making the money." " Giuseppe." " What's up?" "Giuseppe, please..." "Shoeshine Joe." "On the last curve, Pasquale told him, "Go, Bersagliere!"" "and he started off like a..." " Running in cir cles?" " Get lost!" "I meant to say..." " Get lost!" " What do I do?" "When will you bring me chocolate?" "Don't sell it, eat it!" "Do I look stupid?" "Thank you." "What's killing us is that we aren't organized." "If we wer e, the guar ds wouldn't have taken the sausages from us." "From me they took two." "What will they do with them?" " They sell them." " Pasquale." " Hi, Annarella." " Wher e is Giuseppe?" " I need to talk to him." " Giuseppe!" " Hi." " Hi." "I was sent over by your mother." "She needs 300 lira." "What?" "I gave her 500 this morning." "She said she needs the money." " Can I?" " Yes, of course." "Money has sur e lost its value." "Last y ear I'd give my mother 200 lir e and we'd all eat." "Lucky you, you don't have anybody." "Once you eat, everybody has." "Nonsense." "If I still had my mother and f ather," "I would gladly give them a million a day !" "Now you'r e staying with us." "Don't you like it?" " I do." "Who say s I don't?" " Well, let's go now!" "You don't sleep in the elevator anymor e?" "No." "The landlor d, may he drop dead, found out." "At night he calls it upstairs and I can't go in it." "Now I sleep with Giuseppe at Quaranta Alighieri." "I won't tell you the racket." "Shoeshine Joe!" "The other day I took him to the hotel, he gave me a big chocolate cake with ice cr eam inside!" "Damn, if I'd known I would have come too." "I know, but they don't let women inside." "Hey, Giuseppe." " Hi." " Wher e is Pasquale?" "Working in front of Fori Imperiali." " Who's he?" " He's Attilio, my big brother." " He must be rich, huh?" " Yes." "He manages." "Listen, could you come home with me?" "I can't leave Pasquale alone." "If I do, he doesn't do anything." "Goodby e, then." "See you this evening." "By e." "I understood." "Today at 12:00 at the gas tower." "Make sur e it's serious." "I can't waste time." "Don't worry." "It's a good deal." " Okay, by e." " By e." "Ex cuse me." " Wher e have you been?" " With Annarella." "I walked her across the str eet, with all these cars." "Balls." "Watch it!" "You'r e shining his pants!" "What did my brother tell you?" "He said that Panza is waiting for me at 1:00." "Oh, her e's Pasquale." "Hey, it's 1: 30, you know." "What did you expect?" "We had to eat." " And this, who is he?" " He's my partner." "Well now, you even got a partner." "He's my brother." "Well, let's go." "Ther e is some business for you, two American blankets." "Go to number 48 in Via Babuino, fourth floor." "If you go at 3:00 you'll find a lady ther e." " And then?" " Then what?" "You bring the blankets and she buy s them." "At what price?" "And why do you want to know?" "I'm his partner." "That's right!" "You'r e trying to get the most out of it." "Now they are cheaper." "Get 3,400 or 3, 500 if they pay that much." "10%is for you." "10%... 300." "That's not enough." "Let's do 20%." "Let's do 500 and that's it." "Give him the blankets!" "Let's go, now." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Please be ther e at 3:00 sharp." "Don't worry." "For sur e, whoever invented elevators was a gr eat man." "You'r e telling me." "I slept in one for thr ee months." "Prazzi Giulio." " Ah, her e she is." " That's Madame!" "Margherita Donati Anselmi." "Licensed fortune-teller." "Goodby e madam and thank you." "Thank you, miss." "Madam?" "What do you want?" "We have two American blankets." "I'm not r eally inter ested." " How much?" " 3, 500." "Too much." "3, 000." "Well, let's take a look." "Come with me." "They are used." "Yes, I know, but..." "You can make an over coat with them." "And some American will stop me!" "Don't worry." "Nobody will stop you." "Hey !" "You are so distinguished." "You'll look gr eat." " How much?" " 3, 000." " And 500." " You shut up!" " 2, 500." " Do you think we stole them?" "No, but I won't give you mor e than 2, 500." "Listen lady, we'll call it 2, 800 and that's it." "Okay, agr eed!" " Why did you give them to her?" " What's in it for us?" "We won't make mor e than 500 lir e anyway." " 2, 000, 2, 500, 2..." " Is it a new game?" "Leave these car ds alone, kid." "Wher e did you learn your manners?" "Look what you did!" "Hey, ther e is the postman, the train, the funeral!" "What are they for?" " To for etell the futur e." " are you serious?" "Then could you say what's going to happen tomorrow?" "Listen, if you tell us, we'll bring a bottle of milk." "It'll be fr esh too." "You'r e only two kids." "So what?" "Don't kids have a futur e too?" "For sur e!" "Then, tell us, please." "25 car ds ask, 25 call..." " What's your name?" " Giuseppe." " Pasquale." " Cut!" "In the home, outside, what awaits you and what doesn't." "Who loves you and who doesn't." "Pick a car d." "At home, ther e's an old lady that thinks about you." "My mother, but she's not that old." "Kid, if you don't stop I won't continue to r ead the car ds." "This old lady is a little sad because of a letter, but everything will be fine." "Outside." "Outside ther e is a gentleman that protects you." " Anucci!" " But he's no gentleman, he takes care of horses." "The doorbell." "It's a customer." "Wait a moment." "are you Mrs. Margherita Donati Anselmi?" " Yes." "What do you want?" " Police." "We have a sear ch warrant." "I don't understand." "I'm licensed." "The police chief knows me." "His wif e is one of my customers." "I'm sorry, madam, we'r e only following or ders." "We have been informed that you buy stolen goods." "Me?" "That's not true." "I swear." "Ah, ther e they are-- those two!" "Take them away." "Listen, we must come inside, you understand." "Please." " What this all about?" " None of your business." "You sold the blankets, didn't you?" " Keep the money and go." " What do you mean?" "Don't be stupid." "Just go." "Her e is another 3, 000 lira." "You didn't see anything." "You know nothing." " What do we do now?" " Who knows?" "Her e, 3, 000 plus 2, 800 for the blankets." "That's 5, 800." "Did you hear what your brother said?" " We didn't see anything." " And know nothing." "We wer e sleepwalking." "Come on, let's go." "Now we can go and buyourselves a horse." "Wake up!" "Good morning, Bersagliere." "What a horse!" "Like no other." "Look, he's cleaned up almost everything!" "Look at his belly." "It looks like a drum!" " He ate all the char d." " He's no dummy." "He stuff ed himself." "So, boy s, what did you decide?" "The horse will stay her e." "We'll pay stabling charges and come every day and take care of him." "are you going to groom him?" "Give him a bath?" "A bath?" "Don't you wash yourself in the morning?" "A bath?" "All right, we'll do it right away." "Untie him, Giuseppe." "Can you help me?" "Go ahead, get on him, come on." "Okay, ride him well." "No, no." "No, no." "Ther e they are!" "Ther e they are!" "These are the two kids." "Go ahead." "Ah, her e I am, ex cuse me." "What's going on?" "We've arr ested these two kids involved in Via Babuino's burglary." "What burglary?" "At that fortune-teller's home." "Yes, y es." "Bring them in." "Call Losito too." "Better let it boil a little longer than a little less." "Ther e have been bad r esults for not boiling long enough." "Ther e they are, Chief." "It's them!" "Make them conf ess." "They know everything, those criminals." "Calm down, lady." "No r eason to get so upset." "You'd be upset too if they stole 700, 000 lira from you." "700, 000 lira!" "I'd like to have that much!" "So, why did you go to her house y ester day?" "To buy some empty bottles." "Liar, you wanted to sell me some blankets." "And she sur e bought them." "Put it into the r ecor d-- she bought two American blankets." "This is outrageous!" "Now I have to go to jail!" "So, Mrs. Donati Anselmi bought two American blankets." "Wher e did you steal them?" "You kids, look at me!" "Ex cuse me a moment." "Wher e did you steal the blankets?" "We didn't steal them." "A friend, an American, gave them to us." "What's his name?" " Joe." " Joe." "Ah, Joe." "What's the name of the f at one?" "Which f at one?" "The one who came by the fortune-teller's y ester day." "Who knows him?" "Listen, kids, don't get smart with me." "I'll throw you in jail and f eed you br ead and water for a month." "Don't listen to him, he's kidding." "You think I'm kidding?" "Well, with br ead and water we'd die." "So, do you want to tell the truth or not?" "We told you alr eady !" "Losito, lock them up, then we'll see." "Go!" "Go!" "As for you, madam, I also have charges against you." "Chief, I'm a honest woman." "Ask your wif e." "She's a good customer of mine." "Sur e, I'm not surprised!" "My wif e has a brain like this." " Go away, please, go away." " But, Chief..." "Go away, go away !" "I work and she goes to the fortune-teller." "You know what she asks her?" "When I'm going to croak." "Chief?" "Ex cuse me, but those two boy s-- what are we going to do?" "Send them to jail, as juveniles, tomorrow morning." "Is this the home of the r efugees?" " The Filippucci f amily, please?" " Second floor, 3C." "Ex cuse me, the Filippucci f amily?" "Amalia, they'r e asking for you." "I would like to speak with your husband." " Why?" " It's business." "Vittorio... well?" "What's going on?" "Ther e's a young lady looking for you." "Outside, on the corner." "Attilio wants to speak to you." " What does he want?" " To speak to you." "Dad, they've arr ested..." " Who?" " Giuseppe." " So?" " Don't get involved." "Don't go, otherwise it's trouble for me." "So, who's going?" "Annarella!" "First, drop the others off at Regina Cieli, then the kids." "Get out." "Go ahead." "Come with me." "Let's go." "No, this way." "May I come in?" "Your f amily has been informed." "Her e..." "Liberati Angelo..." "r esident of Bari." "But, it's been thr ee months since..." "What can I do about it?" "They'll write." "If they come, I'll let you know." "Go now." "Good morning, Commandant." "I brought you new guests." "I see!" "You certainly keep us busy." "If we continue like this, they'll have to sleep in the courty ar d." "Illegal sale of stolen goods." "Accessory to burglary." "To be held pending police investigation." " Take care." " Goodby e." " Fede?" " Yes, sir?" " Book these two." " Sur e." "Come her e, you two." " What's your name?" " Maggi Pasquale." " Your f ather?" " He's dead." " The name?" " Luigi." " Your mother?" " Maria Fabbri." " Living?" " No." " Born?" " In Rome on October 29... 1931" "Living at?" "30 Via Lombar dia." " Near?" " Via V eneto." "I meant, in care of whom?" "Nobody." "I sleep in the elevator." "Homeless..." "Now, put your hand her e and push har d." " Thr ee times four?" " 12." " Four times four?" " 16." " Eight times eight?" " 62." "Ignorant!" "Eight times eight." "64, ignorant!" " Thr ee times thr ee." " Nine." "The dir ector !" "Attention!" "Turn around!" "Well, well." "V ery well!" "Good morning Sarpera." "I hear d." "My condolences." " How old?" " 10." " An only child..." " No, I have four mor e, but he was the smallest and the brightest." "Well, be strong!" "Attention!" " Six times nine?" " 54." " Seven times seven." " 49." " Eight times five." " 40." " Nine times thr ee." " 27." "The dir ector, go inside!" " Good morning, Bartoli." " Good morning, dir ector, sir." " What are you doing her e?" " We'r e fighting against the bugs, and they'r e winning." "A pesticide I invented my self." " Good." " We should spray the entir e place." "We'll do it, Bartoli, we'll do it." " These boy s are complaining." " About what?" " Oh, ther e are newcomers." " Ther e are alway s some of those." " Who is he?" " Up, come on." "Get up!" "Stand at attention, stand at attention!" "Attilio Scarale from V elletri." "Accused of armed robbery." " Conf essed." " Alone?" "No, with four adults." "I have a younger sister and two younger brothers." "My f ather is a prisoner of war in Germany." "We had nothing to eat." "Armed robbery !" "In a f ew day s, he'll start complaining too." " And these?" " Come forwar d, you guy s." "Who are they?" "Maggi Pasquale and Filippucci Giuseppe." "To be held pending police investigation." "Send them to the first section as soon as the doctor sees them." "Yes, y es." "This morning we had a delegation of parents." "A delegation?" "What did they want?" " To go on strike?" " No, sir." "They came to push for the investigations." "These boy s have been jailed for months." "Whose f ault is that?" "If you r ead the statistics, you'll see that, compared with 1936, crime has incr eased by 60%." "The judges are buried in work." "I understand, but they should consider that these are boy s." "Boy s?" "Armed robbery, burglary, pick pocketing, procuring?" "What do we do to punish them?" "Dinner without dessert?" " If ther e wer e dessert!" " You see, dear Bartoli, you must r ealize that this is a jail not a day care." "I'm telling you, as long as you think this way, you'll r emain an assistant." "Attention." "Not too bad." "Fair." "At ease." "Afterwar ds, we have steaks." "Not for me." "That's too heavy for me." " I have heartburn!" " Fried sweetbr ead and zucchini?" " I wish!" " Me too." " And me too." " For me, spring lamb." "Oh, her e is Tambuti." "And Attilio?" "He didn't want to come." "He was afraid." "Move." " Okay." " What is it?" "They didn't talk." "I alway s said that those two are good guy s, you know?" " Boss?" " What?" "Boss, I thought it over." "Bring us steaks, and make them thick." "Tomorrow we need to send them a package of goods." "Christ, they deserve it." " What did you or der." " Sweetbr ead and zucchini." "Also... when the boy s are inside they have to f eel good otherwise they'll have bad memories and they become useless." "The trams are still running." "It can't be too late." "are you hungry?" "You think my f ather knows?" "Annarella must have told him." "True!" "These must be lice." "They sting." "They'r e bugs." "If you say so." "What is it?" "I think they'll let us go in a couple of day s." "They can't keep us her e." "We've done nothing." " Well, Panza" " Don't say it!" "Forget that name, understand?" "We know nothing." " And the blankets?" " Not our problem." "Those are the fortune-teller's problem." "Let's hope." "I'm sur e." "They are lice." "They sting." "It was all my stupid brother's f ault." "I know, but we have to play dumb." "Then when we get out we'll r eckon." "You think they'll f eed him?" "Sur e, maybe not much." "But in a f ew day s..." "You didn't tell Annarella we bought him, did you?" "How could I tell her?" "I never saw her again." "We can't tell anybody, otherwise they'll take him." "I can't wait to see him again." "Don't tell me." "Mr. Annibale!" "What is it?" "This horse is sick again." "He needs to r est." "Give him water and oats." "Tr eat him with a water and vinegar compr ess." "Then, we'll see." "Damn it!" "Just today I had a funeral." "Why don't you hitch the coach to the horse that belongs to the boy s?" "Let's go!" "Br eathe." "Har d!" "Again." "Get dr essed." "Her e's the ticket for the soup." "Doctor, I want the ticket for the br ead, the soup is garbage." "Don't exaggerate." "You boy s are alway s complaining about something." "I'd like to know how well you wer e eating at home." "My f ather is a fisherman, I was eating well." "Big fish, small fish, chowders." "It was gr eat!" "Go, Raff aeie, I'll take care of the br ead." "The br ead is better." "The soup is garbage." "Garbage, garbage..." "Put the bandage back on." " How is Napolitano?" " He's getting worse." "You can't expect to get better in her e." "It's been mor e than a month now since he asked to be moved to the hospital." "Imagine." "At the Forlanini, the patients are like sar dines." "So?" "They should send him home." " What's he her e for?" " V agrancy." "A vagrant?" "Better vagrant than dead." " Let him go." " If it wer e up to me..." "Then you must be patient." "I am, a lot!" "Doctor, newcomers." "Right now?" "Go ahead, undr ess, the others can wait until tomorrow." "Maggi Pasquale!" "Who is Maggi Pasquale?" " It's me." " Have you been sick?" "I've had chicken pox, measles, whooping cough and that's it." "And you?" "I've never had whooping cough and measles, but my mother say s I've had tapeworm." "Don't worry." "In her e you'll get rid of it." "Parents' statement?" " They didn't come." " As usual." " Do they go in section one?" " Yes, of course." "Silence, I said." "Shut up." "Silence." "Shut up." " How many are you?" " Four." "But Gigino is sick, very sick." "Ther e has to be five of you, like everybody else." "Pasquale!" "Don't separate us from each other." " I want to stay with him." " Forget it." "Pasquale!" "Leave me alone." "Let go of him." "Cowar ds, cowar ds..." "Hey, you small boy." "Son of a bitch!" "Silence." "Shut up!" "Understand?" "Shut up!" "What's happening?" "A guar d knocked around one of the inmates, a new one." "The walk in the courty ar d is suspended until further notice." "The dir ector holds you r esponsible for any disturbances." "The walk in the courty ar d is suspended until further notice." "Yes, until further notice." "Open the shutters, come on." "Open the shutters." "When I get out of this shithouse, I'll show him." "I f eel like smashing him in the head." "But what do you want to do?" "Pasquale!" "Pasquale!" "You better calm down." " What's your name?" " Filippucci Giuseppe." "Why did they arr est you?" "I don't know." "I don't know nothing." "You can tell us." "We'r e not going to spy on you." "But I don't know nothing." "That's Gaggi's place." "If he finds you her e when he r eturns from isolation, you'r e in trouble!" " Wher e do I go?" " Go over ther e." "Did they make you put your finger on the book?" " Yes." " How many fingers?" "Four." " Stupid, silly boy !" " What a fool!" " What an idiot!" " What did I do wrong?" "It was very bad." "Four fingers, now you'll have to serve four y ears." "Four y ears." "You'll get rusty in her e!" "Didn't you see that they shut the window because you wanted to stay with your friend?" "You have to stay cool." "That's how you deal with the masters." "Who are the masters?" "The guar ds." "We'r e supposed to call them that." " Why?" " Who knows?" " Maybe because they "know-oll."" " You say "know-all, " you ignorant!" "Ex cuse me, prof essor." "They are masters on how to steal cigarettes." "Smoking is allowed?" "No, it's prohibited and since it is prohibited we all do it." "He's the only one who doesn't." "He has a lung disease." "I'm going to the hospital now and I'll be cur ed when I leave." " Oh, it's time to eat." " Finally, it's time to eat!" "Time to eat." "Good." "I'm hungry !" "Yester day they only gave us br ead because the guar d said we wer en't booked y et." "It's better to be hungry, otherwise you couldn't stand what they give us." " Bring it over." " You bring it." " Bring it over." " No, you bring it!" "I told you to bring it over, you prick!" "How come Giuseppe, my friend, isn't her e?" "He is in a diff er ent shift." "He'll eat later." "Hey, Pasquale." "Giuseppe!" "Pasquale!" "Stay in line." "If you don't I'll tell the master." "Shut up." "He's a bastar d." "He spies on you." "Attention!" "Turn left." "Forwar d mar ch." "One, two... one, two..." "This stuff isn't edible." "It is." "At first it looks that way, but little by little, if you don't want to die, you have to get it down." " What garbage!" " You didn't finish Raff aeie?" " Yes, I'm done." " You've got to try har der." "Even if you don't like it." "You have to eat a lot, don't you understand?" "Understand?" "Of course I understand." "You don't want it?" "My goodness, what you can stomach!" "are you surprised?" "He had the stomach to shoot his dad!" "Sit down." "Don't be stupid." " V anzetti!" " V anzetti is at post 7." " Filippucci." " Filippucci." " Filippucci." " Stick your hand out." "Filippucci." " Second floor." " Second floor." " Moriconi." " Moriconi, second floor." " Car dinali." " Car dinali, thir d floor." " Piani." " Piani, thir d floor." " Attili." " Attili, thir d floor." " Carozzi." " Carozzi, second floor." " V aleri." " V aleri, first floor." " Proietti." " Proietti, first floor." "Filippucci." "Hey, a gigantic package!" "Wher e is he going?" "Pasquale." "Hey !" "Look her e." " But, it's prohibited." " Why?" "He's my friend." "Go inside your cell if you don't want your package confiscated." " Damn it!" " Get lost." "One of these day s I'm going to destroy that son of a bitch." "Stay cool." "In her e you have to shut up and take it." "No, no." "I'm not going to take it." "You'r e going to get into trouble." "In the meantime, I'm dying to eat." "Stay like this and you'll lose your appetite." "Her e he is." " Five, six, five, six..." " Five, nine, eight, thr ee..." "Help yourselves, ther e is so much!" "Well, just to try." "Ther e wer e 10 pears, but the guar d took four, and an egg too." "Set that aside." "Don't let them stuff themselves." "How disgusting!" "No, this is for my friend." "Who is he?" "A new guy." "This is for" " Ther e is a note inside." " Impossible!" "My mother is neat as a pin when it comes to food." ""The heart tells me:" "Shut up, don't talk." "Truth is the enemy of love."" " You understand now?" " No." "You blockhead!" "They'r e telling you to say nothing." "Oh, now I understand." "About time!" "Ther e was no need for it." "I wouldn't have said nothing anyway." "Good, I like you." "We'll become friends." "Who gave those to you?" "Santa Claus." "We don't have any." "Master?" "What is it?" "What a thief!" "Only thr ee." "Only thr ee, this wr etch, keeper of human meat, worthless thief, and louse!" "Now will you let me smoke?" " I'm first." " No, I want to smoke too..." " Giuseppe!" " Pasquale!" " I came looking for you." " Me too." " How are you?" "How do you f eel?" " Not to bad." "Yester day I ate, you know, with that package." "Yes, I saw it." " I wanted to tell you..." " It doesn't matter." " I need to talk to you." " What is it?" "That must be the friend of the boy." "I don't like him." "Ther e was no need for them to send the note." "Do they think we'r e stupid?" "You know, my brother is so afraid that he shits in his pants." "Damn it!" "With me he has nothing to worry about." "Riccar do." "It's Riccar do." " My pleasur e." " My pleasur e." "If you need a towel and soap, you can borrow mine." "Thank you." " He found the note." " Him?" "He's a wise guy." "He's in her e for armed robbery." "With a machine gun!" "Ther e wer e a bunch of them, they wer e stealing cars too." "His f ather is a doctor, you know?" "I don't like him." "That's because you don't know him well." "I like the others too." "I wish you could come with us." "Maggi Pasquale, Filippucci Giuseppe." " That's us." " Let's go to see the war den." "The police chief wants you." "Why did you fir e those two masters?" "They wer e stealing from the boy s' packages." "They wer e trading cigarettes." "Unfortunately, nowaday s, poverty is turning everybody into a criminal." "Her e are the two guy s." "Come on, come on, step forwar d." "So, you stated you don't know the thr ee men that went into the home of Mrs. Donati Anselmi," " isn't that so?" " Yes." "But you know Mr. Anucci, don't you?" " Yes." " Yes." "Okay, good!" "This man came to see me y ester day and told me he sold you a black horse." " No, he's white." " Yes, right, a white one." "I misr ead." "A white horse, for 50, 000 lir e, corr ect?" " Yes." " Yes." "And you bought him about one hour after... the burglary in Via Babuino." "You know, I understand wher e you'r e going but you'r e wrong." "We had the money alr eady." "Is that so?" "And how did you make that money?" "That's our business." "Listen, boy s, I've come her e with good intentions." "I want to help you." "Yester day I spoke with your f ather." "The man is out of his mind." "He said to tell me the whole truth." "It's the only way for you to be forgiven." "We told you the whole truth." "We know nothing." "Chief, you are too nice." "Give them to me." "I'll make them sing, these criminals, with a good beating!" "Did you hear?" "Why do you want to get beat up, and end up in a dark cell with rats?" "To def end who?" "Thr ee criminals?" "I'd understand if it wer e someone in your f amily, but you, you are all alone." "And you, your parents are poor but honest people." "Listen, Chief, you can kill us if you want, but we can't tell you what we don't know." "Too bad!" "The smaller one." "Don't worry, your turn will come." "Undr ess him." "Take off his shirt too." "Do you want to speak?" "No, please, enough!" "That's enough!" "Then have you made up your mind?" "Give me the names." "We don't know anything, I swear." "Enough, enough." "I'll tell you everything." "So?" "One is called Panza." "The other is Attilio, Giuseppe's brother." "The thir d I don't know, I swear..." "I never saw him befor e." "Giuseppe!" "Take him to his cell." "Well, let's go." "What about this guy?" " Giuseppe." " Pasquale." "So, did they hurt you?" " No, what about you?" " Me neither !" "Didn't they use the belt on you?" "are you kidding?" "You didn't say anything, did you?" "No, no, I didn't say anything." "I told you to come her e, damn it!" "What did he want?" "Nothing, he wanted to know if they beat me up." " What happened to you?" " Nothing." "Why?" "You should see your f ace." "It's my f ace." "If you don't like it... don't look at it." "Why are you her e?" "Do you have a visitor?" "No, nobody." "Then what are doing her e?" " Mario, take him." " I'm busy." "You watch him." "Come her e." "My mother, wher e is she?" "Di Dio." "That's me." "She's not my mother." "His mother sent me." "She wrote asking me to come and see you." "Her e's the postcar d." " Wher e is she?" " In Flor ence." "She went to Flor ence, but she'll come soon, you know." "I brought you this package." "Ther e is a lot of stuff in it." "Thank you." "Goodby e." "Take care, my boy." " Good morning." " Good morning." "Pasquale, my mother is her e." "I'll see you in the courty ar d." " Giuseppe!" " Come on, move!" "Mom!" "Do you forgive me, Mama?" "How could you do something like this?" "I wasn't involved, Mama." "We didn't know anything... and didn't do anything!" "He is a criminal, I know." "He is wr etched... but he is your brother." "You must not spy on him." "What are you saying, Mama?" "Don't pr etend." "The police chief told me it was you two that talked." "Okay, okay, Attilio is nothing, but you!" ""Raff aeie, kiss him for me." "Tell him his mother will be back soon." "She'll bring money for a lawy er, so he can get out quickly." "Things are very good for me in Flor ence." "Much better than Rome." "Your devoted, Ter esa Di Dio."" " How f ar is Flor ence?" " Not f ar." "I know someone who has a truck and drives ther e once a week." "Then it's close!" "Eat, Pasquale!" "No, thank you." "Take some, take it." "Don't touch that." "It's his stuff!" "He's sick, he needs it!" "Spy, spy, spy..." "What happened?" "You should be ashamed." "We give you a little fr eedom and you take advantage of it immediately." "What happened?" " He's a spy." " That's not true!" "Behave, boy s!" "I don't want to pay because of you." "Behave!" "I don't want to get rusty in her e because of you." "Behave!" "Behave, boy s!" "I need to speak with you." "What do you want?" " None of your business." " Who say s so?" "I say so." "Listen, Napoli, you get off easier because you are sick, but watch what you say." "Okay." "You don't want to speak with me?" "If you'r e bringing a message from that spy you'd better save your br eath." "You don't have much of it to spare." "Good, you gave him a good answer." "Hey, Riccar do." "Go, Giuseppe, now is the time." "You've got to go." "You swor e." " If you don't, you'r e a cowar d." " What are you saying?" "Of course you'r e going!" "Mr. Staff era, in cell number 9 they have a file." " What?" " They'r e hiding a file." "Damn it!" "Maybe if I'd spoken to him I'd have convinced him." "You'r e smart, but that was wrong." "He's the one who has to come and apologize." "I don't understand, you wer e such good friends." "You liked each other." "It's a shame." "Me, I still like him." "But if he..." "Those in cell 9." "Whose file is this?" "Who does it belong to?" " Whose file is this?" " Who knows?" "Whose file is this?" "I swear by the Mother of Christ...!" " Whose file is this?" " I don't know." "Never saw it befor e." " Whose file is this?" " I don't know!" "Get out, get out." " Who does it belong to?" " I swear on my honor that..." "Who sleeps her e?" "I do." "This file was found in your mattr ess." " It can't be." " It can't be?" "Then, I'm a liar, is that it?" "No, I mean, it's not mine." " I didn't put it ther e." " Then you'r e accusing your mates of putting it in ther e?" " I'm not accusing anybody." " The file is yours." "Who gave it you?" "What wer e you gonna do?" "Nothing." "Nobody gave it to me." "It's not mine, you see, it's not mine." "Out!" "Out!" "All of you!" "No, no, enough!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Inside." "Lock them in." " Stop crying!" " You twit." "Don't you r emember you sent your brother to jail?" "Everybody will know it was you who spied on Staff era." "Dry your tears, baby." "Her e comes Staff era." "What's your name?" "Filippucci Giuseppe." "Good." "If he becomes head of the group we've got it made." "Now look at him... stupid!" "Stop it!" " are you f eeling sick?" " I'm burning all over." "My f ather has a very helpful ointment." "I'd like to know who put the file ther e." "When I find out, I'll smash his head, I swear to God!" "Even if I end up at Regina Cieli." "Come on, Pasquale, they all think you spied so you have to understand..." "But it's not true!" "Hey, Napoli, what's his story?" "Did he spy or not?" "Drop dead!" "You could have told me." "I told Raff aeie." "At first, even he didn't believe me." " Me?" " Yes!" "Imagine the others!" "Now, I don't care if they believe me or not." "I want to know who put the file in the mattr ess." "Just forget about it." "It's over." "Over?" "I mean... well, okay... tomorrow I'll talk to Giuseppe." "You have to make peace, okay?" "For me!" "Yes, for you, I'll get him to make peace." "It's impossible to sleep in her e." "Stop all that!" "I spoke with him." "Come." "He's the one that has to come to me." "My goodness, what a pair you are!" "He say s you have to come, you say he has to come." "Let's compromise." "Just meet halfway, okay?" " Okay, halfway." " Finally !" "Damn it!" "What bad shape they put you in!" " Did you go to the doctor?" " No." "Be careful, he washes you with soap." "Does it hurt?" "Yes, it hurts, but it'll go away." "So, did you make up your mind?" "Damn it!" "You'r e making such a fuss!" "Listen, boy... did you tell him who put the file in the mattr ess?" "No, I didn't tell him." "And not even who asked me to do it." "As f ar as I'm concerned, you can tell him." "What should I do?" "Whatever you want." "If you have the courage to help the person that sent your brother to jail... go ahead." "You hear d what Righetto said, he did it because he thought they wer e beating me up." "Damn it!" "Don't listen to that moron." "Moron?" "Watch your mouth!" "It's the truth, Giuseppe." "Go ahead!" "Show them what you'r e made of." "Come on!" "Help, help, they'r e killing him!" ""Tends to be violent, dangerous to himself and others." "We r ecommend isolation."" "Master !" "Master !" "What is it?" " I want to go to the bathroom." " Just use what's in ther e." " I see, but then..." " I don't care." "I'm not the one staying in ther e." " You call that a horse?" " What do you know!" "Besides, I don't like horses, they'r e too slow!" "You don't know Bersagliere!" "He flies!" " Who is Bersagliere?" " Never mind." "You don't know him." "Someone give me a cigarette." "And how do we get them?" " I went to the infirmary." " We can see." "Idiots!" "I mean I've got everything r eady... to escape." "Yes, but I'm the idiot wasting my time talking to you guy s." "No, no, we'r e listening." "With you I'll never be able to put anything together." "Why?" "We'r e r eady." "You shut up!" "Indeed, I won't say anything just because of you." "What did I do to you?" " You ganged up with Pasquale." " Yes, it's true." "No, it isn't true." "In f act, when I saw you on the floor looking like you wer e dead..." "Okay, okay..." "So, when entering the infirmary..." " Damn this one!" " Do you want to shut up?" "So... the f ence... it's f astened to the wall with an iron bar." " I've got everything r eady." " Really?" "I cut through a lot of bolts." "You just need to shake it har d to br eak it open." "I figur ed from the windowsill to the roof below ther e's just about a couple of y ar ds." "Filippucci?" " Her e!" " You have a visitor." " Her e he is, Counselor." " Thank you." "Come her e, my dear." "We have a lot to discuss." "I've been sent by Bonavino, the lawy er hir ed by your f amily to def end you and your brother..." "Attilio..." "Attilio Filippucci." " Your name is Giuseppe?" " Yes." "Your friend is..." "Pasquale Maggi?" " Yes." " And his f amily?" "He has no f amily." "V ery well, it's better that way." "Our def ense is that you didn't want nor did you understand." "You have to say it was Maggi that lur ed you into selling." "To do what?" "You have to say you knew nothing but your friend was aware of everything." "Pasquale also knew nothing." "It was my brother who arranged everything." "Well, good." "Repeat that in court and you'll guarantee your brother is in for five y ears." " But it's the truth." " Save the truth for your conf essor." "In court, you say what I tell you." "This f amous horse could not have been bought, as the def ense would want us to believe, with har d-earned money." "It was money from illegal activities." "That's absur d!" "The stolen goods have been r ecover ed." "Wher e is the horse now?" "Don't answer." "If I didn't know you well, counselor," "I would think that in your vocabulary" ""horse" is synonymous with "lawy er's f ee."" "You must be joking!" "Why did you buy the horse?" "To ride him!" " Ah, to ride him." "Is that so?" " It's the truth." "How much did you plan on making from him?" "Sergeant, bring in Maggi." "I bring to the attention of the court that Maggi has been characterized as "Tends to be violent." "We r ecommend isolation."" "So, when did you buy the horse?" "Ex cuse me, Your Honor," "I don't understand why the horse is so important." "I'll tell you why." "Who are you def ending, Maggi or the Filippucci brothers?" "The Filippuccis." "I've been hir ed by the f amily." "Maggi is with Carbone, a public def ender." "How much did each of you own of the horse?" "That is, what was your share and what was Filippucci's share?" "We each have half." "Did you sign any papers to that eff ect?" "No." "If ther e wer e a dispute between the two of you, how could you prove ownership?" "Can you tell us wher e the horse is hidden?" "Don't answer !" "The accused doesn't have to answer that!" " Who is that?" " Who knows?" "Maybe the Queen." "Wher e are you going?" "Hold on." "You can't go through." "Stop!" "Stop!" "You can't go inside!" "A Roman emperor" "I can't r emember his name-- called his horse "Senator."" "Man, he speaks good." "Why be surprised if two poor boy s, two kids living on the str eet put all their money... all their hopes on a horse?" " I've seen him." " What's the counselor saying?" " He is talking about the horse." " Did you ever ride a horse?" " No, but I'd like to try." " Can't you keep quiet or not?" "Who's talking?" "You don't need to be a doctor in psy chology to understand the overbearing influence that Maggi had on his friend, the little innocent Giuseppe." "Just look at him." "Who wouldn't want him as a son?" "I'm not accusing Maggi." "That's the district attorney's job." " Let's go." " We've got to be brave." " My poor sons!" " Don't be like that." " Shouldn't we go back inside?" " No." "Who's saying these innocent boy s had a house, a f amily, school, a job?" "This is not a crime." "Should they then be consider ed criminals?" "If so, ladies and gentlemen, you must condemn all of us, as we are the people who, in pursuit of our passions, abandon the childr en to f end for themselves." "And our childr en are alone." "All alone." "Mr. Cador e, your turn." "I'll be brief, as is my custom." "On the other hand," "I did not have the time to delve into the details of this case." "Ther efor e, I will entrust my client to the f atherly clemency of the court and I ask for a complete acquittal, or a very light sentence." "V ery, very light." "Mar cello!" "...in addition, sentence the youth Maggi Pasquale to two y ears and six months in prison and a 2, 000 lira fine, and Filippucci Giuseppe to one y ear in prison and a 1, 000 lira fine." "Without appeal." "Giuseppe, Giuseppe!" "You rascals!" "You villains!" "Her e they come!" "Poor boy s, my poor sons!" "Giuseppe!" "Attilio." "Oh, her e he is, finally !" "We thought they'd put you in front of the firing squad." "How did it go?" "I got a y ear, but I don't care." "Wher e is Riccar do?" "He's gone to meet his mother." "She has to give him the money." " Then, you've changed your mind?" " are you crazy?" "This morning, Sicilia and I went to the infirmary." "He's still ther e and everything's in place." "I wish I could see the f ace of the district attorney" " when he finds out I've escaped!" " How much did Pasquale get?" " Two y ears." " That much!" "And why?" "What happened?" "That stupid woman didn't come, she sent my f ather instead." " But" " But what?" " We'r e escaping anyway, right?" " Without money?" " They'd catch us again tomorrow!" " What about me?" "They gave me one y ear, don't you understand?" "I don't want to stay her e." "I want to get out!" "Shut up, you idiot!" "Do you want to ruin everything?" "You'r e worried about one y ear?" "Without money ther e's no br eaking out!" "That's why I asked my mother for 10, 000 lira, but the stupid woman told my f ather." "He figur ed it out, and now he wants to talk to the dir ector." "He's going to have me put in isolation." "He told me I have to "serve, " I have to pay for it." "Damn him!" "He say s I'm the disgrace of the f amily." "They'r e ashamed of me." "I've got money." "Wher e?" " I've got it." " How much?" "Over 50, 000 lira." "Look, they'r e her e." "Her e come the entertainers." " What are you showing tonight?" " Something good?" "are we going to see naked legs?" "A comedy would be better." " They'r e showing a movie." " Big deal!" "Last time they showed something silly like we wer e still in kindergarten." "I like it." "I've never been to the movies." "So?" "Did you have to come to jail for that?" "We'r e lucky." "They f eed us, they shelter us, give us clothes, they even entertain us." "What else could you want?" "It's a swell bargain." "NEWS FROM THE FREE WORLD" "In the Pacific Ocean, General MacArthur continues the successful campaign against the Japanese." "Bougainville is the target of a strong off ensive carried out by the navy and air and ground for ces." "The attack is being led by the destroy ers." "Pasquale-- the ocean!" "The American for ces are on land, one step closer to Japan itself." "Open-- open the window." "Lights!" "The lights, please!" "What are you laughing about?" "Hey, you kids--!" "What are you doing ther e?" " Damn it, we've been caught!" " Why didn't you wait?" "Open up, open up!" " Open up!" " What is it?" "They've jammed the lock and locked themselves inside." " How many are they?" " I've seen two." "Open up, boy s!" "Open up!" "Open up!" "Stop!" "Lights!" "The lights, the lights!" "Calm down, for heaven's sake!" "Calm down!" "Ther e's no danger." "Turn on the lights." "Lights, lights!" "Master, master !" "My God, it's Raff aeie!" "Let's take him to the infirmary." "Open up!" "Open up!" "Open up, boy s!" "Open up!" "Boy s!" "Come back!" "Boy s!" "Come back or I'll shoot!" "Boy s, consider the consequences!" "Boy s!" "Boy s!" "Boy s!" "I want to go away." "I want to leave too!" "Go, go!" "Take him back to his cell!" "Five or six have escaped." "Sound the alarm, surround the building." " Come on, wher e is your cell?" " I want to see him." "Tomorrow." "We have to wait for the doctor." " What if he's dead?" " Let's hope not." "Now come." "To the cells." "Take them to their cells." "I told you to take them to their cells." " Ar cangeli has escaped." " Who's escaped?" "Ar cangeli, Giuseppe and five others." " Really?" " Ther e wer e mor e than 20." " And Napoletano is dead." " Dead?" " Yes, but they caught them." " Idiot!" "They had a car waiting!" "Giuseppe had the horse too." "A horse?" "What horse?" "Did you hear that?" "They had a horse too." "Wher e did they keep a horse?" "The guar ds!" "Stop!" "Stop ther e, boy s!" "Come on, we've got them" "Come on, come on!" "Bartoli, get the forms r eady for tomorrow." "And the r eport." "One page is enough." " Tomorrow?" "Maybe I won't be her e." " Wher e will you be?" "I don't think this is the right place for me." "I don't even know wher e the right place for me is, but in her e you need people tougher than me... tougher than me." "In any case, ther e was nothing to be done." "The poor boy-- his day s wer e number ed." "Don Biagioni, I'm devastated." "It's my f ault." "It's my f ault." "Calm down, calm down." "It was an accident." "We caught them." "Ther e are two missing-- the criminal Ar cangeli, and Filippucci, the little one who was sentenced this morning." "We informed the police." "They won't get f ar." "You don't believe they could leave town?" "Wher e would they go?" "Without money, dr essed as inmates, they can't go around naked in winter." "Unless the f amilies help them out, and that's unlikely." "I know Dr. Ar cangeli and Filippucci's folks are poor." "You can't imagine the troubles we'll have with the department." "Mr. Staff era!" "What do you want?" "I know wher e they went." " Who?" " Ar cangeli and Giuseppe." "Wher e?" "I'll take you ther e." "He's not her e." "I knew it." "They took him away." "Look over ther e!" "What happened?" "What did they do to you?" "My head hurts." "They beat me up-- the big one." " Wher e did they go?" " I don't know." "They came, they wanted the horse." "They said it was theirs." "My head hurts." "They beat me up." "The bigger one..." "Get down!" "No, no, Pasquale, no!" "Giuseppe?" "Giuseppe!" "Giuseppe..." "Giuseppe!" "Mother of God, what have I done?" "What have I done?" "Giuseppe!" "THE EN D"