Vittorio De Sica's heart-wrenching and arm-twisting argument on behalf of the Little Man. The people's faces and the slum locales look coldly authentic and untampered-with. But the woeful plotline -- a menial laborer's frantic search for his stolen bicycle -- dumps truckloads of irony and pathos all along the way. (1949) — Duncan Shepherd
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