Variety Lights

Nobody in Checco Dal Monte's traveling variety troupe has much talent, yet the show keeps moving from one small Italian town to the next. Checco (Peppino De Filippo) hires Lily Antonelli (Carla Del Poggio) as a dancer, which sets his mistress Melina Amour (Giulietta Masina) against her. Fellini and Lattuada, directing together for the first time, leave Checco in his worn suit, still the manager of a show that has already moved on.