Wild Is the Wind (1957)
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo, Anna Magnani played a widow who could never find a man to measure up to her late husband, in Wind her character, Giola, marries widowed rancher Gino (Anthony Quinn), who is haunted by the memory of his first spouse. The situation is dicier in Wind, since Italian immigrant Gino's deceased wife was Giola's sister. Eventually tiring of her husband's mood swings, Giola turns to his son, Bene (Anthony Franciosa), for emotional and sexual gratification. A Hollywood approximation of the Italian neorealist school of filmmaking, Wild Is the Wind was based on Furia, a story by Vittorio Nino Novarese. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Anna Magnani - Giola
- Anthony Franciosa - Bene
- Joseph Calleia - Alberto
- James Flavin - Wool Buyer
- Frances Morris - Party Guest
- Joseph Vitale - Party Guest
- Anthony Quinn - Gino
- Dolores Hart - Angie
- Lili Valenty - Teresa
- Iphigenie Castiglioni - Party Guest
- Dick Ryan - Priest
- Director(s):
- George Cukor
- Writer(s):
- Arnold Schulman
- Producer(s):
- Hal B. Wallis
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- 1958 - Wild Is the Wind - Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Actress
