Indiscretion of an American wife & Terminal station [videorecording] / a David O. Selznick presentation ; screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi ; produced and directed by Vittorio de Sica ; dialogue by Truman Capote.
Based on the story: Terminal station / Cesare Zavattini. Originally produced as motion picture in 1954. Special Features: new digital transfers of both versions of the film: Indiscretion of an American Wife: Selznick's 72-minute cut, including the Patti Page-performed overture "Autumn in Rome" and "Indiscretion"; Terminal Station (Stazione termini): De Sica's original 89-minute version; exclusive audio commentary on Indiscretion by film scholar Leonard Leff (Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick); original theatrical trailer; promotional materials. Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Richard Beymer.
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.
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