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Tennessee Williams is much like a schoolboy who pulls the wings off flies to watch them squirm, but in place of flies, the playwright looks at people trapped in their own moral degeneracy. This process is hardly a pleasant one, yet in The Rose Tattoo, Williams very skillfully adapts it to the purposes of comedy. It is not a kind of humor, though, that will give an audience a feeling of lighthearted pleasure--it is sweaty and intense and at times almost brutal...
...last analysis, even Williams has to bow before the actress' talents. His screenplay is a clever job, and his curious probing into degeneracy is often quite interesting. But few will stop to be impressed with his work on the film. The Rose Tattoo is clearly Anna Magnani's picture...
...Rose Tattoo stamps an indelible impression on anyone who can take Burt Lancaster's antics. Anna Magnani at the Metropolitan...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...