Word: brazzi
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...Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...
...Europe, where it may set back Western amity by 20 years. Two of the girls work as secretaries in a U.S. Government agency which, as a matter of policy, seems to regard most Italians as strictly colonial inferiors. When Actress Peters starts to run around with Actor Brazzi, who plays a lowly Italian translator, her boss and his wife react as if she were bound on miscegenation in the Deep South. But the film is pretty, even if peopled by dunces...
...melodramatic manner, it tells the highly melodramatic story of a prostitute (Anna Magnani) banished by the Naples police to her native island after an absence of 18 years. There she finds her innocent young sister (Geraldine Brooks) in danger of being seduced by an unscrupulous diver (Rossano Brazzi). In the end, the prostitute kills the diver and dies in a volcanic eruption...