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Divorced. By Vittorio De Sica, 53, Italian neorealist film director (The Bicycle Thief): Guida Reissone De Sica, 37; after 17 years of marriage, one daughter; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Vittorio De Sica, in his first English language film, has tried to convert a simple emotional conflict into another of his Italian art masterpieces, and he has failed. He has failed because his picture did not include anything more substantial than a few lines of sentimental dialogue and a series of tormented expressions...
Working with a cast of two actors and a group of irrelevant extras wandering about Rome's Statione Terminal, De Sica has omitted any of the action and incidents which could produce an effective picture. In place of these ingredients, the director substituted Jennifer Jones as a confused Philadelphia housewife who is desperately trying to break off an affair with her Italian lover, Montgomery Clift...
...Sica's use of the everyday drama of a railroad station--a pregnant woman and a traveling class from a deaf and dumb school--occasionally brightens the submerged conflict. It is a losing cause, however, for he has stretched one poignant incident past the breaking point into a full-length feature...
...difficult to accurately praise Alexander Nevsky because Sergei Eisenstein, the main reason for its existence and excellence, is incomparably above his fellow directors. When, in the course of review, you have exhausted the supply of superlatives describing Kazan, Stevens, De Sica, and the other conventional geniuses, to evaluate Eisenstein is a frightening task...