When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

• DirectorVittorio De Sica
• Release20 January 1952
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 31m
• Budget?
• Revenue$71,461
• Rate
  

  7.888
  698 reviews
• Productions

  Amato Film, Rizzoli Film, Produzioni De Sica