Word: silvana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beacon Hill theatre put a puzzling question to the moviegoer. "Should a girl confide her innermost secrets--dare she?" Intrigued by this and stimulated by suggestive captions on equally suggestive publicity photos, he buys a ticket to Tomorrow Is Too Late. But the moviegoer's illusions about seeing another Silvana Mangano in action fizzle rapidly when he discovers that the film is dedicated "to children and to adults who forget they were once children." Despite these handicaps, Tomorrow Is Too Late is an entertaining movie...
...they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad in a flesh-colored bathing suit...
...Silvana Mangano plays an earthy young lady who sings up to cultivate rice for a 40-day period. She falls in with a particularly unscrupulous jewel thief and his current moll. In the course of the film she steals a hot diamond necklace from the moll, muscles out the mill, and finally commits suicide in a highly spectacular manner...
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...
...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 during a fight in a butcher shop. Director Giuseppe...