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...drinker and singer of songs at his favorite café, and a hell of an engineer. But at 50, Andrea's self-centered world begins to go off the track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks to steady himself, narrowly averts a worse disaster when he rams...
...been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love and run into difficulties that lead them from bed to glassworks to a public swimming pool, and other colorful local settings...
Tall, shapely Virna Lisi, 27, has a non-Latin look that appeals to Italian fans and will be sampled by U.S. audiences when she appears with Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife, her first Hollywood film. Sylva (38-26-38) Koscina, 27, is another tall, cool one, a Yugoslav by birth, who came on strong in Joseph Levine's muscle opera, Hercules, and keeps the paparazzi popping by strolling around in skintight black leather ski pants...
...Sylva, by Vercors. A fox turns into a young lady, thereby giving her keeper and Vercors much opportunity for ironical analysis of what little girls are made...
...Sylva, by Vercors. A fox becomes a girl, offering French Novelist Vercors endless opportunities for instructive irony; perhaps the author's best notion is that the girl's protector must consult Freud to give her some much-needed inhibitions...