
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to in... (Full plot summary below)
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Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe disappointing pic is right in Vivian Leigh's wheel-house, as she inhabits her aging and fading beauty character to the fullest and gives a superb performance. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAs the aging actress, Vivien Leigh is good but Warren Beatty is miscast as the gigolo in this weak screen adaptation of Tennessee William's novella. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThe tagline says that they called it love and it was for sale, to which the appropriate response is that one hopes they kept the receipt. |
| User ReviewPrivate Uan absolute classic; would dearly love to see this again, Italy caught at its most fabulous in the early 60's, Warren beatty as the " fallen aristtocratic" roman prince, utterly miscast, but he looked the part ! and just a beautiful film ! |
| User ReviewIce RExcellent Tennessee Williams starring a brilliant Vivien Leigh!! |
| User ReviewTerry MThis is Vivien leigh best role. She draws from her own experence with anxiety to play the role of Karon Stone. |
| User ReviewTerry ITwisted tale of wanting & needing love....Enough to pay for it.... |
| User ReviewKelly HTennessee Williams claimed that this was his favorite film adaptation of his work. I tend to agree with Tennessee. This film is lush and verdant while at the same time being about fading beauty and death. The Roman setting makes the story mythical and timeless, and Ms. Vivien Leigh is excellent in the role of Karen Stone. Her fragile ego and fading beauty are necessary elements of the story, and who was more fragile in her fading beauty than Ms. Leigh? Warren Beatty is not terrible, and the supporting cast is colorful and sinister as required. As for the so-called purple prose, that's just Tennessee Williams being Tennessee Williams. What's wrong with that? I watch this film whenever it reappears, and always admire its complex beauties. |
| User ReviewStephanie PThis isn't the right picture though. I saw the Showtime version from 2003 or so, with Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, and Olivier Martinez. Phenomenal, tragically beautiful film. Mirren is outstanding, and Bancroft and Martinez are superb as well. |
| User ReviewMarie PVivien Leigh plus Tennessee Williams equals beauty. Coral Browne and Lotte Lenya are the whipped cream on the sundae. |