The first of Sophia Loren's very popular comedies, Too Bad She's Bad is based on a story by Alberto Moravia. Its humor and its charm thrive on a kind of down-to-earth devilishness that makes us identify with the amoral practicality of two thieving scamps over the more honest, common sense cab driver who becomes caught in their web...and under their spell. Vittorio De Sica plays a veteran purse-snatcher nearing retirement age who lends a benevolent eye, and sometimes a helping hand, to daughter Loren's adventures in thievery. Marcello Mastroianni is the harried hack who keeps coming back for more, against his better judgment. Director Alessandro Blasetti was an eclectic and prolific filmmaker whose career spanned some four decades; he was Italy's most prominent director of the fascist era.