Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1954)

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EXPLOITATION PICTURE of the Issue ^nc/idcretion an mericun (-)scar-\viniu'r X'ittorio Dc Sioa ( Bicycle Tliief I has teamed two stars wlio lave also fifjured proniineiitl v in the Acadeniv Awards for a romantic film off he beaten path. Rejjortedly working for 6/ days in an Italian railroad station fter it had closed for the night, I)e Sica ])ortravs two and a half hours of an dyll between a married rhiladeli)hia socialite. Jennifer Jones, and an intense oung college professor, Montgomery Clift. The story begins with the woman waiting for a train, to bring her back to home and husband, after a secret love ffair. iler paramour tinds her there. ])ersuades her to share the last brief nonients with him. Their passion has the hundreds of passengers, attendants, ailroad workers gaping, causes the police to stej) in. Brought into custod}-, he woman is faced with exposure of the romance and wreckage of a ha])])}' narriage and loss of her son, in the wake. De ."^ica keei)s he accent on the emotional asi)ects, although, in one cene the desperate Clift takes a solid whack at the realcitrant Jennifer. The noted Italian ])r()ducer-direct0f las fasliioned a jjoignant ahd unusual love story in "Inliscretion of an American Wife."' An imixissioned Jcnnijer Jones (above) reads to her lover's kiss, and (right) his anger. Wife FILM BULLETIN April 19, 1954 Page 31