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Recent dispatches from Rome report that Roberto Rossellini repudiates the American version of "Stromboli." I don't blame him. But he can't disclaim all responsibility for the film. An actress of Bergman's abilities should never have been cast in an Italian movie...
Unfortunately this sort of vehicle plays havoc with the amateur talent recruited from the fishing people of Stromboli. While Bergman ably throws herself about sobbing "I'm going mad," the rest of the east don't quite know how to play roles requiring emotions they themselves have never experienced...
...these handicaps to portray a displaced Czech who marries a young fisherman solely to escape from the life of a DP camp. The difficulties encountered by the girl in trying to fit into the almost primitive life of her husband's native fishing village on the volcanic island of Stromboli are supposed to lead to her religious conversion...
...become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures. "She is a disgrace . . . to American women," he fumed. "I'm glad she's a foreigner...
...spokesman for RKO, which will rush Stromboli into a "saturation" release next week, loftily announced that "Miss Bergman's private life is of no concern to the studio." But Daily Variety noted that the studio had been concerned enough to move up the picture's release date when it heard "that Bergman had checked into a hospital." By a happy coincidence, the picture will now open the day after a Juárez court, if all runs on schedule, grants the divorce...