Rome Adventure (1962)

Director:

Delmer Daves

Writers:

Irving Fineman (novel)
Delmer Daves (writer)

Release Date:

21 abril 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel...

Plot Keywords:

Aging | Male Female Relationship | Traveling | Librarian | Rome Italy

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Two young Americans find their way to love in gorgeous Italy! Beautiful scenery as the audience is taken in a tour of Italy! Entertaining and informative! You will want to get on the plane and go to Italy!

Cast

Troy Donahue	...	Don Porter
Angie Dickinson	...	Lyda Kent
Rossano Brazzi	...	Roberto Orlandi
Suzanne Pleshette	...	Prudence Bell
Constance Ford	...	Daisy Porter
Al Hirt	...	Himself
Hampton Fancher	...	Albert Stillwell
Iphigenie Castiglioni	...	Contessa
Chad Everett	...	Young man
Gertrude Flynn	...	Mrs. Riggs
Pamela Austin	...	Agnes
Lili Valenty	...	Angelina
Mary Patton	...	Mrs. Bell
Maurice Wells	...	Mr. Bell

También conocida como:

Lovers Must Learn
Amantes deben aprender, Los (Mexico) [es]
Más allá del amor (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Brazil:119 min | USA:119 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #20125)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

The book that Prudence is disciplined for giving to her student is "Lovers Must Learn" by Irving Fineman, the novel this film is based upon. This was also the title used during filming.

Quotes:

Daisy: The first time a good-looking Italian man pinched my bottom, I said, "This is for me!"

Movie Connections:

References Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Two young Americans find their way to love in gorgeous Italy! Beautiful scenery as the audience is taken in a tour of Italy! Entertaining and informative! You will want to get on the plane and go to Italy!

Prudence, Assistant Librarian, Suzanne Pleshette (The Birds, Newhart) resigns from the preppie and all women school Braiarcroft because of the book "Lovers Must Learn" that she lends to a student. The Faculty Board did not approve, and she was forced to resign. She wants to live her life and to really fall in love as the book has inspired her. She goes to Italy and she gets a job at a book store run by an American woman who lives in Italy.

When in Italy she meets, Don, Troy Donahue (The Godfather Trilogy, Imitation of Life), a graduate student in Architecture, who is working on his thesis, in Italian architecture. They fall madly in love. He had this mistress Lydia, Angie Dickinson(Dressed to Kill). Rossano Brazzi plays this really lovable Italian gentleman (Roberto) whom Prudence meets on her way to Italy. He is really a nice guy and also friends of Don. Don and Prudence go on a tour around Italy by bus and then on his Vespa. It is a beautiful love story!. It is a love story, an old fashion love story as the people in love still sleep in separate beds and rooms. My favorite scenes in this movie are: the fluffy dog, Don playing with a piece of grass and caressing Prudence's face with it, the scenery of Italy, the friendliness of the Italian people, and their "savior de vivre," and ultimately when Don meets Prudence back in the States with this huge candelabra in his hands! I have such good memories of this movies that I have to give it a ten. The chemistry between Pleshette and Donahue is outstanding. They fall in love in real life in this movie. I was very disappointed when Suzanne and Troy were separated after a short marriage, I believe they were married one month. But I guess some love stories only have happy endings in the movies. I have the video, but the video it is not easily available at your rental video store. I highly recommend this gorgeous love story!