Word: valli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first episode pries into a decadent country villa where wealthy Industrialist Curt Jurgens is dying upstairs while his son Sami Frey throws a wingding below. Suffering through the Oedipal conflict, language dubbing and dense cinematic trickery are Jurgens' wife Alida Valli and daughter Susan Strasberg. Among the more perceptive waiters hired for the revels is Hero Renato Salvatori, who abruptly exclaims: "What a house-lonely, sad, mean and rotten!" Salvatori heads home to Milan, only to find more moral chaos. Jean Sorel is so alienated that he goes to a party and seduces his own wife, luscious Antonella Lualdi...
COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Guest stars are Eddie Albert and Alida Valli...
...Long Absence. In a village on the Seine a widow (Alida Valli) keeps a small cafe. Her husband, caught by the Gestapo during World War II, has been dead for 15 years, and she has long since made her peace with life, and found a lover, and stopped thinking about things that thinking cannot change...
...story is set in the Po Valley. As it begins, a factory hand (Steve Cochran) is jilted by his mistress (Alida Valli), who goes to another man. Stunned and unmanned, the hero runs without really knowing where he is going, runs with the Po as it runs downhill to the sea. On the way he meets three women: one from the town (Betsy Blair), one from the country (Dorian Gray), one from the brothel (Lyn Shaw). They all love him, but he cannot love them in return. He loves only the woman who left him. Desperate, he turns back...
Some of them, like Harry Lime (Orson Welles), who runs an unimagineably disagreeable trade involving the maiming of small children, are direct apologists for evil. And Anna (Alida Valli), the woman who loves him, must sympathize with it; the British Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) whose job is to erase it, has to be callous, scheming, and often unjust. Powerfully appealing characters as they are, they appear as agents of Greenes' famous preoccupation with the inescapable sordidness of sin in the modern world...