This Angry Age

This Angry Age
Promotional poster
Directed byRené Clément
Written byMarguerite Duras (novel)
Diego Fabbri
Irwin Shaw
Produced byDino De Laurentiis
StarringAnthony Perkins
Silvana Mangano
Richard Conte
Jo Van Fleet
CinematographyOtello Martelli
Edited byLeo Cattozzo
Music byNino Rota
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • October 31, 1957 (1957-10-31) (Italy)
  • June 25, 1958 (1958-06-25) (United States)
Running time
105 minutes
CountriesItaly
United States
LanguageEnglish

This Angry Age (also known as The Sea Wall, Barrage contre le Pacifique, and La diga sul Pacifico) is a 1957 Italian-American drama film directed by René Clément, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and starring Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano. It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' 1950 novel The Sea Wall. The original novel was adapted again in 2008 by Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall, starring Isabelle Huppert.