Mambo (film)

Mambo
Mambo
Directed by	Robert Rossen
Written by	Ennio De Concini; Ivo Perilli; Guido Piovene; Robert Rossen;
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis; Carlo Ponti;
Starring	Silvana Mangano; Michael Rennie; Vittorio Gassman;
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Edited by	Adriana Novelli
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino; Nino Rota;
Production; company	Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica
Distributed by	Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica; Paramount Pictures (US);
Release date	18 September 1954 (Italy);
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	Italy; United States;
Language	English

Mambo is an Italian/American international co-production film, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti and Paramount Pictures written and directed from 1952 to 1953 by Robert Rossen and released in 1955. A mambo craze spread through the USA in the 1950s, and Rossen aimed to repair his finances after almost two years without work since his 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing.^[1] The film co-stars Katherine Dunham who acted as the film's choreographer.