Indiscretion of an American Wife

• Director: Vittorio De Sica
• Genre: Romance
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Melodrama
• Themes: Dangerous Attraction, Americans Abroad, Brief Encounters
• Main Cast: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer
• Release Year: 1954
• Country: IT/US
• Run Time: 72 minutes

Plot

Legendary producer David O. Selznick teamed with Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) to bring audiences this heartfelt romantic drama concerning the pain of lost love and the difficulty of saying goodbye. When a beautiful but married American woman, Mary Forbes (Jennifer Jones), meets a handsome Italian, Giovanni Doria (Montgomery Clift), while on holiday in Rome, their forbidden affair soon develops into something more for the lovelorn Giovanni. As Mary bids her heartbroken lover farewell at the train station, Giovanni cannot repress his true feelings and begs her to remain with him in Italy. With a script that credits such writers as Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Paul Gallico, and Alberto Moravia, Indiscretion of an American Wife has endured to become a true buried treasure of romantic cinema. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Jennifer Jones - Mary Forbes
• Montgomery Clift - Giovanni Doria
• Gino Cervi - Commissioner
• Richard Beymer - Paul, Mary's nephew

Nando Bruno - Employee; Memmo Carotenuto; Giuseppe Forelli; Enrico Glori; Clelia Matania; Gigi Reder; Paolo Stoppa - Baggage Clerk; Enrico Viarisio; Maria Pia Casilio - Ciro; Liliana Gerace

Credit

Virgilio Marchi - Art Director, Marcello Girosi - Associate Producer, Wolfgang Reinhardt - Associate Producer, Christian Dior - Costume Designer, Alessandro Antonelli - Costume Designer, Vittorio De Sica - Director, Jean Barker - Editor, Eraldo Da Roma - Editor, Alessandro Cicognini - Composer (Music Score), Franco Ferrara - Musical Direction/Supervision, Sammy Cahn - Songwriter, Paul Weston - Songwriter, G.R. Aldo - Cinematographer, Aldo Graziati - Cinematographer, Vittorio De Sica - Producer, David O. Selznick - Producer, Truman Capote - Dialogue Writer, Cesare Zavattini - Screenwriter, Luigi Chiarini - Screenwriter, Giorgio Prosperi - Screenwriter