If I Was Honest

The young and very handsome Vittorio De Sica stars in this comedy of a good-for-nothing who, sentenced to prison for a short term, hires a respectable but poor young man (De Sica) to take his place. The substitute serves the term, gets out–and unexpectedly has to continue the impersonation, while the guilty scapegrace has to assume his identity. The comedy is mild and gentle rather than the quick, knockabout farce of an American film, but, if not hilarious, the movie is very pleasant, and one really feels for the poor young man, forced to dig himself in deeper and deeper.