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Gelsomina's (Guilietta Masina) sister Rosa has already died on the road with Zampano's (Anthony Quinn) one-man travelling show when "La Strada begins." Needing another assistant, Zampano returns to Rosa's village where the girls' mother agrees to sell Gelsomina to Zampano also, in exchange for 10,000 lire. The other children are going hungry and Gelsomina herself is regarded as somewhat worthless; she is exceedingly timid and does no work to help the family. If this exchange seems somewhat coldhearted, it only hints at the treatment Gelsomina will receive throughout the rest of the film...
...Quinn imbues his character with a gruff machismo. Zampano is a bold ladies' man, stupid and violent. He would frighten the people around him more if he didn't seem so ill-fated. Rarely is he effective in venting his desires or angers. This doesn't stop him from posturing as a refined man in hand medown-suits. Nor does it stop him from bullying everybody but paying customers. In fact, his apparent awareness of his own crudeness only increases his need to and pleasure in commanding Gelsomina, beating her and boasting about "how he taught her everything she knows...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
...best thing about her show is that she actually shows you the technique instead of the recipe," said Francis W. Quinn '88. "She shows you how to do a chicken saute, and you can adapt it to other recipes for meats. She does a good job with the technique...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Ketanji O. Brown, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...