Dino Risi, 1962; 105m For many, Vittorio Gassman's best-loved performance was as Bruno Cortona, the large-living, fast-talking huckster in Dino Risi's hilarious road movie. Bruno meets Roberto (an impossibly young Jean-Louis Trintignant), a shy student, and starts to give him a few lessons on the way of the world while taking him on an extended tour of the Roman countryside. Among the people they run across on their journey is Lily (Catherine Spaak, only 17 at the time), who seems capable of teaching both of them a thing or two. Risi brilliantly sends up both masculine swagger and the Italian economic miracle of the late 50s, with Gassman, as in so many of his best roles, projecting seemingly contradictory qualities - here, boastfulness and vulnerability - simultaneously.