This spoof on the caper thriller à la Rififi shows with satiric precision just what happens when real human beings attempt the "perfect heist." (The Italian title is front-page lingo for "the usual unknown person.") Here we have several individuals, united by their desperate need for money, attempting to rob a neighborhood jewelry store in Rome. Their ostensible leader is Peppe (Vittorio Gassman), who can't quite convey-because he can't pronounce-the key concept in such a job: "scientifico." He and Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni), a sometime photographer who is normally babysitting while his wife does time, are joined by an impetuous popcorn seller (Renato Salvatori). All are far too human for their own good; at every turn they are distracted from their abstract goal by life itself. The greatest humanist of the gang is the renowned safecracker Dante (Totò), who delivers an incomprehensible lecture in heistmanship and then wisely heads for high ground. Unlike these boys, Monicelli's timing is flawless and the film moves apace to a climax worthy of Buster Keaton. Repeated Thursday, March 27.