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This thumbnail review by an indiscreet studio executive was about all that the public really had to go on before RKO rushed Producer-Director Rossellini's Stromboli into more than 400 U.S. theaters this week. After loudly ballyhooing the movie for weeks as a kind of lurid peepshow ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), the studio had suddenly refused all advance screenings for movie critics. The reason, RKO frankly admitted, was fear that unfavorable reviews might cool the fever of public interest in the Stromboli idyll of Director Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (TIME...
Recent dispatches from Rome report that Roberto Rossellini repudiates the American version of "Stromboli." I don't blame him. But he can't disclaim all responsibility for the film. An actress of Bergman's abilities should never have been cast in an Italian movie...
...unusual success of the post-war Italian film has been with proletarian tragedy. Its shoeshine boys and unemployed slum-dwellers are caught up in vast economic forces beyond their comprehension or control. Both Rossellini and de Sica had only to step out in the street to find actors who had already lived the roles. But Rossellini had to depart from the sociological for the psychological to give Miss Bergman a role with depth enough for her talents...
...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...
...infant, he said, will be called Roberto Ingmar (the Swedish masculine equivalent of Ingrid), and the birth registration will read: "Father unknown." This, Rossellini explained, is to cope with any possible attempt by Dr. Lindstrom to claim custody. As soon as he and Ingrid can be married, Rossellini added, he will formally give the child his name...