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...Rome's Statione Terminal, De Sica has omitted any of the action and incidents which could produce an effective picture. In place of these ingredients, the director substituted Jennifer Jones as a confused Philadelphia housewife who is desperately trying to break off an affair with her Italian lover, Montgomery Clift...
Miss Jones sighs and pants in her usual professional manner, and the sluggish script calls for nothing more. Clift's lot is no better; his expressive face is overtaxed in ninety minutes of repetitious closeups...
...this case, the boredom is surprisingly unrelieved by the fact that Vittorio de Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief} is directing the crowd in the waiting room. Jennifer Jones is "a housewife from Philadelphia," a mother who has taken a brief vacation from marriage. Montgomery Clift is an Italian college professor, the sort of tourist attraction Italy has offered to northern women since the days of the Ostrogoths. At one point he lures Jennifer into a darkened train compartment and gives her a clinching argument for not going home. Surprised by the terminal police, the lovers are haled before a magistrate...
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). James Jones's novel about the peacetime Army, sweated down to a fine, muscular picture; with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra (TIME...
...From Here to Eternity" cleans up James Jones' novel without dissiapating its impact. Frank Sinatra is fine, as are Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, and Deborah Kerr. At the Capitol...