Via Padova 46

In postwar Rome a clerk at the finance ministry leads a dull, monotonous life at work and had home where he lives with his hypochondriac wife and domineering mother-in-law. His life takes on air of excitement, however, when he is invited to a rendezvous at an apartment on the Via Padova with an attractive foreign woman. On arriving there he finds her murdered and now fears that the police are close on his trail. == Songs ==

In the scene where Arduino Buongiorno goes alone on Sunday afternoon to the Italia bar in Piazza della Repubblica in Rome to get some vanilla cake, the song Maria Magdalena sung by Flo Sandon's with the orchestra conducted by Federico is heard to the rhythm of samba Bergamini. ==Cast==

• Peppino De Filippo as Arduino Buongiorno • Alberto Sordi as Gianrico • Giulietta Masina as Irene • Arlette Poirier as Marcella Dupont • Leopoldo Trieste as The Man with a Cigarette • Ada Dondini as Arduino's Mother-in-Law • Lidia Martora as Carmela • Luigi Pavese as The Office Manager • Ernesto Almirante as Cesare • Memmo Carotenuto as Bertuccelli • Lamberto Maggiorani as The Porter in Via Padova • Carlo Dapporto as Avvocato Tancredo Tancredi • Vittorio Duse as Policeman at the Airport • Franco Giacobini as The Journalist == References ==