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...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...
Bitter Rice (Lux Film] is an Italian-made melodrama with many points of resemblance to a U.S. thriller. It is lifted out of the ordinary by 1) its star, a sexy, sultry young woman named Silvana Mangano, and 2) its subject, the rice harvest of northern Italy...
...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...
Scheduled for August production, the film will star Irish Actor Kieron Moore as the wily outlaw, with possibly Anna Magnani or Silvana Mangano supplying the love interest. If neither cinemactress is signed, a beauty contest will be held to find a sweetheart for Giuliano. For expert details, Producer Scott hopes to call on Colonel Ugo Luca, who baited publicity-lover Giuliano by disguising his troops as moviemen filming a bandit picture...