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...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...
...Music on Ice (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Singers Johnny Desmond and June Valli plus skaty-eight skaters in a variety show called Continental Holiday. Color...
...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The pleasant crooner's guests are Andy Griffith and June Valli...