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Italian Cinemactress Silvana (Bitter Rice) Mangano, visiting Manhattan to help ballyhoo "Italian Film Week," reported to police that her $14,000 diamond and ruby ring had been stolen from her hotel room...
...home to the Italian industry by Bitter Rice, a second-rate movie with arty pretensions and a nodding gesture to social problems (the exploitation of women workers in Italy's rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for the tightly clad, womanly figure of Silvana Mangano, who helped make the picture the biggest-grossing foreign-language film ever shown in the U.S. Now the Italians have made a picture entitled Sensuality, starring Newcomer Eleonora Rossi-Drago, with which they expect to clean up in the U.S.-if it gets by the censors...
Upgraded Genius. With dollar success, the moviemakers lost some of the advantages of their pinchpenny early days. Silvana Mangano, who got $800 for her scenic rice-picking, now commands $32,000 a picture, while Italy's top star, Anna Magnani (Open City, The Miracle), commands $96,000. But Italian producers are still able to turn out a film for as little as $112,000, less than a tenth of Hollywood's average budget. In Italy's castle-crowded, ruin-laden countryside, they need build few sets. In a nation which talks with its eyes and hands, they...
...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...