Indiscretion of an American Wife

One of Hollywood's most successful and demanding producers, David O. Selznik, and one of Italy's (and the world's) most distinguished artists, Vittorio De Sica teamed up for this little known film. I can only imagine than these two didn't get along very well, but I don't really know. The result is this compact (63 minutes) film that feels like a giant, prolonged climax. But a dull one. It feels like the ending of a much longer film and not a whole film unto itself. The story is reminiscent of David Lean's superior, Brief Encounter (itself a fairly over rated film). To be honest, I was unaware of both Selznik and De Sica's involvement in this film, I saw it primarily because of one its stars, Montgomery Clift, who is constantly affirming himself as one of my five favorite actors of all time. He is always interesting and in a time before actors ever were very "interesting". I would like to make a couple of hours worth of a film and then place this at the end of it, so that it might be more complete and worth the time it takes to watch.