Word: rizzoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn) weaves some episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi into a rich cinematic garland. As adapted from the 14th century Fioretti di Francesco d'Assisi by Director & Co-Author Roberto Rossellini, the film is no solemn picture of a dead and embalmed saint, but a warmly human portrait of a humble man who rejected the world for a life of poverty and piety...
Tomorrow Is Too Late (Rizzoli-Amato; Joseph Burstyn) is a delicate story of confused adolescent love and shame. When a couple of starry-eyed students (Pier Angeli and Gino Leurini) are caught in a storm in the woods and spend the night innocently in an abandoned church, a puritanical summer-camp directress brands them moral outcasts. The girl tries to drown herself, but is saved in the nick of time by the boy and two sympathetic teachers (Vittorio De Ska and American Lois Maxwell), who have been fighting for more enlightened sex education for students...