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General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the almost unbearably moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...
General della Rovere (Zebra-Gaumont; Continental) is a quickie that almost became a masterpiece. Shot, cut and canned in 33 days of cost-trimming, brain-fagging labor, it is by all odds the best picture made by Italy's Roberto Rossellini since Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946). It restores Rossellini, after eleven years of private enterprise (Ingrid Bergman, Sonali das Gupta) and artistic calamity (Stromboli, A Trip to Italy, Europe '51), to his rightful but qualified eminence as a cinema natural who shoots movies the way other men shoot dice-when he's cold he just...
...Italy's The Adventure embarrassed some spectators after sensuous Monica Vitti had rolled in unmown hay with her leading man. It left them spellbound when the fellow enjoyed a tart on a hotel divan while Mistress Monica twitched with loneliness in her bed upstairs. Roberto Rossellini and the professional cinema crowd hailed the film as "masterful" and "ten years ahead of its time...
Died. Gino Sotis, 57, Italy's famed divorce-hating divorce lawyer, whose clients included Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the Shah of Iran's ex-wife Fawzia, Barbara Hutton, and Mussolini's last mistress, Claretta Petacci; of a heart attack; in Rome...
Cold as sculptured ice, Ingrid Bergman faced Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...