Always detested Alberto Sordi; especially his last films were terrible.
This is one of his last ones and at the time reviews were poor: bad acting, bad direction, overly sentimental.
In retrospect, though it does have all these faults, I think it deserves to be reevaluated (and revalued).
Certainly not original, definitely naive, not a masterpiece at all.
But there is a genuine touch of sadness in this story of an old cabman who earns a living driving tourists on horse-drawn carriage rides in Rome and desperately tries to save the horse (which he doesn't own) from being slaughtered.