by Robert Firsching
synopsis
Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters including such respected names as Dino Risi and Franco Brusati, but comes up as a soggy soap-opera rather than an imposing star-vehicle. Nino Rota's fine score and the always watchable Mangano are its only saving graces.
characteristics
- Past
- Nun
- Nightclub
- Sex
- Spiritual
- Trucker
- Truckdriver
- Murder
- Love
- Decision
- Convent
- Choices
- Flashback
- Hit
- Italy
