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Vittorio Gassmann, as the thief, is as sneaky as they come. An American actress, Doris Dowling, play the cast-off girl friend with sensitivity, although she seems a trifle anaemic compared to Mangano. Raf Vallone capably completes the cast. Without the fine acting of those people and Silvana Mangame. Raf Vallone capably completes the cast. Without the fine acting of those people and Silvana Mangono, "Bitter Rice" would have been a weak attempt. Thanks to them, however, it is a hard-hitting film--even if it does aim a little below the belt...
...pair of jewel thieves on the run from the police join the migrant workers crowded into an abandoned barracks on Italian estate. One of them (Hollywood's Doris Dowling) slogs into the rice paddies and finds redemption in hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook...
...provided fills the bill, for the writers stress the humor, underscore the sentiment, yet never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers...
...squad is Pete Steffans, who was one of the divers for the squad in 1942. Outside of Steffans, the mermen are as green as the pool at Dartmouth, except for the possible exception of Tony Bryan--50 yard free style who is a graduate of Oxford and the RAF, doing special work here...
Tony Bryan, late of the RAF and a graduate of Oxford doing special undergraduate work at the University, took the 50 yd. free-style with ease, with the stop-watch reading 26.4 secs. Ulen's two diving artists, Pete Steffens and Tony Drohan, ended up a half-point apart, with Steffens...