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...Volcano (Panama; United Artists) is an eruptive drama set on Vulcano, one of the small (pop. 450), rugged Aeolian islands west of the toe of Italy. In a melodramatic manner, it tells the highly melodramatic story of a prostitute (Anna Magnani) banished by the Naples police to her native island after an absence of 18 years. There she finds her innocent young sister (Geraldine Brooks) in danger of being seduced by an unscrupulous diver (Rossano Brazzi). In the end, the prostitute kills the diver and dies in a volcanic eruption...
Reminiscent in story and treatment of Stromboli (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), Volcano is a far better film.* Against the island's rough backdrop, the yarn's primitive passions do not seem particularly excessive or out of place. Director William (Salome) Dieterle has made good use of Vulcano's sun-baked terrain, rocky mountainsides, bleak and barren vistas. Blending a documentary style with the blood & thunder, he has turned out some notable scenes: a raw, vivid tuna-fishing sequence, a scene of island women toiling in the cruel pumice mines, a colorful festival procession on nearby Lipari...
...years of records on Japan's biggest active volcano, Mount Aso, there are accounts of more than 3,000 eruptions, of one farmer injured by falling stones (in 1485), but not one death. On the floor of the crater-15 miles long and ten miles wide-live 60,000 people...
Arequipa, Peru's second city, is dominated by El Misti, a 19,100-ft., snowcapped volcano, but for almost 50 years its principal attraction was "Tia" Bates...
When they got back to San Diego, their lava samples were analyzed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They seem to be "acidic," which would prove, according to Scripps Man Richards, that the volcano is a continental type in spite of its position well out from the continental shelf. It may get its lava from a deep-down magma reservoir like those which have fed volcanoes on the Mexican mainland...