Sunday, 20 February 2022

Light in the Piazza (1962 Guy Green)

Yvette Mimieux died January 17, aged 80. She's rather good in this, playing a young woman with the mental age of ten. How she will cope with marriage, separation from her mother, sex and childbirth might have made an interesting sequel. She sure learns Italian fast.

O de H plays her over-protective mother. With George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Isabel Dean, Barry Sullivan. Photographed by Otto Heller in CinemaScope.

I didn't understand why the horse and carriage rider is such a maniac.


Produced by MGM. Written by Julius Epstein, from Elizabeth Spencer novel.

Time Out's Phil Hardy comments "It quickly falls prey to that most awesome of cinema's horrors - Rossano Brazzi - as attraction develops between de Havilland and the boy's father. A terrible film."  Which I wouldn't agree with but find funny.


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