INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE
DIRECTION: Vittorio De Sica
| English title | Indiscretion of an American wife |
| Original title | Stazione Termini |
| In Usa: Indiscretion of an American Wife (07.54 - 63') - In West Germany: Rom, Station Termini (1954 - 85') - In Great Britain: Indiscretion (1954 - 75') |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Running time | 110' |
| Nationality | ITALY/USA |
| Genre | Drama |
| Production | Produzione Films Vittorio De Sica |
| Co-prodction | Selznick Releasing Organisation, New York (Usa) |
| Distribtion | Lux Film |
| DIRECTION | VITTORIO DE SICA |
| Subject | Cesare Zavattini |
| Screen-play | Cesare Zavattini, Giorgio Prosperi, Luigi Chiarini |
| Photography | Aldo Graziati |
| Scenography | Virgilio Marchi |
| Music | Alessandro Cicognini |
| Editing | Eraldo Da Roma |
Jennifer Jones
Mary Forbes
Montgomery Clift
Giovanni Doria
Beymer
Paul
Enrico Viarisio
A gentleman
Nando Bruno
First railroader
Oscar Blando
Second railroader
Gino Cervi
The officer
Giuseppe Porelli
The gallant traveller
Attilio Torelli
Sicilian emigrant
Enrico Glori
Sergeant
Pasquale De Filippo
Stolen gentleman
Paolo Stoppa
Gentleman at the station
Clelia Matania
A traveller
Gigi Reder
Young bridegroom from Abruzzo
Maria Pia Casilio
Young bride from Abruzzo
Memmo Carotenuto
The thieve Venturini
Viviana Cerace
Sicilian in labour
Amina Pirani Maggi
Lady of the telegram
Memmo Poli
The fat person
Mariolina Bovo
The blonde girl
Charles Fawcett
Sad gentleman
Roberto Rai
Brademan
Mary, young American lady, comes to spend a period in Rome, to her sister. In Philadelphia she has left her husband and her small daughter: having known the teacher Giovanni Doria, she falls in love with the Italian youth. The hard relationship lasts one month when, after a phone call from America, Mary decides to depart immediately. Giovanni reaches her to the station, and asks for an explanation. The two discuss longly: Mary, that was decided to follow the call of the distant dears, is going to capitulate, when the meeting with her nephew Paul furnishes her a pretext to subtract to Giovanni’s insistences. This, feeling offended, slaps her. The two breakup. Met again, they shelter in an abandoned wagon: here a brakeman discovers and conducts them to the precinct of the station. When Mary declares that she will depart, the two are released. For Giovanni the disappointment is bitter: Mary, that has been induced to the departure by the fear of the scandal, swears him eternal love.
CRITIQUE
After the failure of Umberto D., De Sica accepted to direct two American stars with David Selznyck’s money, and all shouted to the betrayal of Neorealism. Variation on Breve incontro di Lean, the film is not that bummer that was told, even if the surrounding sketches, that would give color, are innoportune and the story is conventional. (P. Mereghetti “Dizionario deifilm 1998”, translated by Alice Castoldi)
NOTES
Collection of 343 million lire against the 106 of Umberto D.
English dialogues: Truman Capote
Music direccted by: Frank Ferrara