Indiscretion of An American Wife

Indiscretion of An American Wife
Language: English Country: USA Year: 1954
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Jennifer Jones; Montgomery Clift
Genres: Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Jones plays an American housewife visiting relatives in Rome. She has an affair with Clift. She attempts to leave him at a train station, and he begs her to stay.
Black & White.
Vitterio De Sica have done a great job here.

The main railway station. Jennifer Jones tries to catch the next train to Paris. She has decided to leave her Italian lover Montgomery Clift and return home in Philadelphia to her husband and her little 7 years old girl. But Montgomery shows up at the last minute and she gets out of the train. She will spend the next hour trying to decide what to do : to stay with Montgomery or to catch the next train.

The movie lasts 120 min. in the european version but was edited by David Selznick to 63 min. for the U.S. audience.