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Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
Richard Beymer
- Paul Stevens
- (as Dick Beymer)
Gino Anglani
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Bill Barker
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Oscar Blando
- Railroad worker
- (uncredited)
Mariolina Bovo
- Blonde girl in train
- (uncredited)
Nando Bruno
- Railroad worker
- (uncredited)
Memmo Carotenuto
- Venturini - the thief
- (uncredited)
Maria Pia Casilio
- Young bride from Abruzzo
- (uncredited)
Aristide Catoni
- Priest
- (uncredited)
Giovanni Corporale
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Pasquale De Filippo
- L'impiegato della biglittera
- (uncredited)
Claudio Del Pino
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Ciro Di Castro
- Bit part
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUpon completion of filming, Jennifer Jones gave Montgomery Clift a Gucci leather briefcase. The clasp on it didn't work, unfortunately. Clift told his friends "It's beautiful, but it doesn't quite work - how like Jennifer".
- GoofsWhen Mary and Giovanni are seated in the restaurant, the design of the ashtray on their table repeatedly changes from a circular "Pellegrino" one to another that is triangular and branded "Cinzano".
- Quotes
Mary Forbes: I thought you weren't Italian?
Giovanni Doria: Because my mother comes from America, doesn't make me less Italian. In this country, its the men who count. You American women are much too emancipated.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: ROME Eternal City of Culture, of Legend . . . and of Love
- Alternate versionsThe 72 and 63 min. versions are both from Selznick and the only difference is that a 9 min. musical short, Autumn in Rome, filmed by James Wong Howe, and directed by the great art director William Cameron Menzies, in which Patti Page performed two songs inspire; by the film, was tacked on in order to bring the picture up to a standard feature length at 72 min. , when Columbia Pictures released Indiscretion in the U.S. in 1954. This is not a longer edit of the De Sica original. The Film only exists in two versions, the Selznick 63 and the De Sica 89. That short is also included on the Criterion Collection DVD, along with both versions of the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
- SoundtracksAutumn in Rome
(uncredited)
Written by Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, from Alessandro Cicognini's score
Sung by Patti Page
Copyright Cromwell Music Inc. (1954)
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Kill the Music Already
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
** (out of 4)
An American wife (Jennifer Jones) needs to leave Italy for Paris but she's having a hard time letting go of her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift). Originally this was released as STAZIONE TERMINI at 89-minutes but when it hit America, the producer chopped it down to just 63-minutes and added this new title. I'm not going to try and review the original since I haven't seen it but I really do hope it's better than this thing here, which is just a boring mess. Again, I have no idea why David O. Selznick decided to cut this movie down and I'm not certain if it helped or hurt it. I can say that this version here is just one big, boring melodrama that thankfully features two good actors or else this would have been a real disaster. I knew I was in trouble early on during a scene where the woman is writing a note, can't finish it and just crumbles it up. This is when the first loud, swelling music happened and this here was a clue that we were just going to get a boring, wannabe tear-jerker. Throughout the movie there were at least a dozen moments where the music would go loud and over-dramatic but I guess they were trying to use the music to make up for the fact that nothing you were watching was dramatic or emotion. This movie is really, really trying to make the viewer feel for these characters but that's pretty much impossible especially when you know so little about them. The majority of the time they just come across as two people who need to get a life. Both Jones and Clift are good in their roles but I'd say that both of them had much better days. I think just knowing how great they are made up for the fact that they weren't given much and I'm not too convinced that Monty was the right person for the role. What's really shocking is that director Vittorio DeSica made the masterpiece UMBERTO D before this thing.
** (out of 4)
An American wife (Jennifer Jones) needs to leave Italy for Paris but she's having a hard time letting go of her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift). Originally this was released as STAZIONE TERMINI at 89-minutes but when it hit America, the producer chopped it down to just 63-minutes and added this new title. I'm not going to try and review the original since I haven't seen it but I really do hope it's better than this thing here, which is just a boring mess. Again, I have no idea why David O. Selznick decided to cut this movie down and I'm not certain if it helped or hurt it. I can say that this version here is just one big, boring melodrama that thankfully features two good actors or else this would have been a real disaster. I knew I was in trouble early on during a scene where the woman is writing a note, can't finish it and just crumbles it up. This is when the first loud, swelling music happened and this here was a clue that we were just going to get a boring, wannabe tear-jerker. Throughout the movie there were at least a dozen moments where the music would go loud and over-dramatic but I guess they were trying to use the music to make up for the fact that nothing you were watching was dramatic or emotion. This movie is really, really trying to make the viewer feel for these characters but that's pretty much impossible especially when you know so little about them. The majority of the time they just come across as two people who need to get a life. Both Jones and Clift are good in their roles but I'd say that both of them had much better days. I think just knowing how great they are made up for the fact that they weren't given much and I'm not too convinced that Monty was the right person for the role. What's really shocking is that director Vittorio DeSica made the masterpiece UMBERTO D before this thing.
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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