Bibliograph

Indiscretion of an American wife, & Terminal station, a David O. Selznick presentation ; screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi ; dialogue by Truman Capote ; produced and directed by Vittorio de Sica

Type

Label

Indiscretion of an American wife, & Terminal station, a David O. Selznick presentation ; screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi ; dialogue by Truman Capote ; produced and directed by Vittorio de Sica

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Indiscretion of an American wife

Medium

DVD ;

Oclc number

52908616

Responsibility statement

a David O. Selznick presentation ; screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi ; dialogue by Truman Capote ; produced and directed by Vittorio de Sica

Runtime

161

Series statement

The Criterion Collection, 202

Sub title

& Terminal station

Summary

An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version, Terminal Station, was screened at a length of one-and-a-half hours, but after disappointing previews, Selznick severely re-edited it and changed the title to Indiscretion of an American Wife without De Sica's permission

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Vittorio de Sica's Indiscretion of an American wife ;, & Terminal stationTerminal station

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