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...Anna (Silvana Mangano; M-G-M). A dispirited tango from the Italian film of the same name, recorded from the film's sound track. Actress Mangano gives it a minimum of singing but plenty of sensual lassitude...
Hardly on a par with other Italian imports, Anna is entertaining mainly as a vehicle for Silvana Mangano's sensuous talents. Faced with a wellworn plot and a superinposed sound track, Mangano overcomes, both, and alternatey slinks and strides her way to a fine performance...
Billed as "Hollywood's newest heartthrob," hawk-faced Vittorio Gassman makes himself thoroughly despicable as Anna's chief debaucher. Raf Valone is the straight man who loves Anna for something besides the obvious. Jaques Dumesnil, playing an elderly surgeon-philosopher, and Patrizia Mangano, Silvana's sister, fill out a competent cast. Written by Nino Rota, the music smooths over some rough spots in the plot and dialogue, effectively supplementing the film's emotional crises...
...think Silvana Mangano, still new in movies, is an exceptional actress. But she needs better pictures and less cheap publicity to prove...
Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...