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...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. As Italo Bombolini, Anthony Quinn so skillfully cowers and struts in his roles of husband and boozy mayor that he achieves nothing less than comic-operatic stature. Anna Magnani, as his wife, proves every bit the match for the bombastic Bombolini with a performance as strong as the lines indelibly etched on her face...
...house where the cock is silent and the hen makes all the noise." So clucks a resident of Santa Vittoria, summarizing the marriage of the Bombolinis, Italo (Anthony Quinn) and Rosa (Anna Magnani...
...bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that was not born but achieved...
Bombolini has a nagging wife played by Anna Magnani. She shouts at him. clobbers him with pans and insults him when he needs comfort. Under all the revilement lies a reviving love for her husband, but she struggles with it. She has suffered too much pain and misery while Bombolini was the town clown to forgive him easily...
...Quinn-Magnani interaction is powerful. This relationship is the most real thing in a movie which approaches fairytale. A smile from her means kilowatts more than all the other love scenes in the movie. Apart from these two oppositions-Quinn and the German, Quinn and Magnani-the movie is unexciting. The photography is not interesting. The love scenes are embarrassingly cliched...