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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Truman Capote (dialogue)
Luigi Chiarini (writer)
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Release Date:
10 May 1954 (USA) more
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Plot:
A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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Couldn't recapture the magic more (23 total)

Cast

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Jennifer Jones ... Mary Forbes

Montgomery Clift ... Giovanni Doria
Gino Cervi ... Police commissioner
Richard Beymer ... Paul (as Dick Beymer)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Indiscretion (UK)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (USA)
Station Terminus (International: English title)
Terminal Station
Terminal Station Indiscretion (International: English title)
Terminus Station (International: English title)
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Runtime:
90 min | USA:63 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:S | Spain:18 | Sweden:Btl | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1996) | USA:Approved (PCA #16463, General Audience) | West Germany:16

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Autumn in Rome more

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Couldn't recapture the magic, 14 May 2005
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Monty Clift and Elizabeth Taylor lit up the screen in A Place in the Sun with their performances. My belief is that David O. Selznick thought that with his wife Jennifer Jones opposite Clift, some of the magic from that film would rub off here.

But there's no magic in Stazione Termini. I saw a butchered version that reached the American cinema. Now it's possible that what now would be called a director's cut would have been better, but I doubt it. Jennifer Jones is fine as the American wife who is leaving Rome after an affair with a local played by Monty Clift. But basically I sat through 63 minutes of one long goodbye.

Up to a few minutes ago I had seen at one point every Montgomery Clift movie except this one. I wish I hadn't seen this one. Poor Monty Clift is about as Italian as Lech Walesa. I think Monty knows this one was going to be a stinkeroo for him and it shows. At one point director Vittorio DeSica explains that Clift has an American mom to explain the lack of Italian accent. Why didn't he cast someone like Rossano Brazzi in the part, God only knows.

I'd guess that Mr. Selznick had something to do with it. David O. Selznick was not terribly rational when it came to his wife's career. Maybe in an American story Jones and Clift might have set some sparks off. But not here.

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