Terminal Station (film)

Terminal Station
Italian theatrical release poster
ItalianStazione Termini
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Written byLuigi Chiarini
Giorgio Prosperi
Truman Capote
Based onStazione Termini
(short story)
by Cesare Zavattini
Produced byVittorio De Sica
StarringJennifer Jones
Montgomery Clift
CinematographyG.R. Aldo
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Jean Barker
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
Production
companies
Produzione Film Vittorio De Sica
Produzioni De Sica
Selznick Releasing Organization
Distributed byColumbia Pictures (United States)
Lux Film (Italy)[1]
United Artists (International)[2]
Release dates
  • 2 April 1953 (1953-04-02) (Italy)
  • 10 May 1954 (1954-05-10) (United States)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesItaly
United States
LanguagesItalian
English

Terminal Station (Italian: Stazione Termini, released in the United States as Indiscretion of an American Wife)[3] is a 1953 romantic drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, and Richard Beymer (credited as "Dick Beymer") in his debut role. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian intellectual. The title refers to the Roma Termini railway station in Rome, where the film takes place. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film of Italian director De Sica, as an international co-production with American mogul David O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences between them that resulted in two different versions of the same film, an 89 minute Italian version and a 72 minute American recut under the alternate title Indiscretion of an American Wife. The experience was such that De Sica never worked with a Hollywood producer again, though he would make future English-language films with American actors.

  1. ^ "Stazione Termini". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)". BBFC. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  3. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Stazione Termini". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2024-08-08.