Rome Adventure

1962

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1597 1.6K

rome, italy vacation school teacher

Director

Delmer Daves Photo
Delmer Daves

Top cast

Norma Varden Photo
Norma Varden as Dean of Briarcroft College for Women
Hope Summers Photo
Hope Summers as Mrs. Stillwell
Angie Dickinson Photo
Angie Dickinson as Lyda Kent
Constance Ford Photo
Constance Ford as Daisy Bronson
480p.DVD
1.02 GB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bcrumpacker 7 / 10

Mid-Century Eye Candy

Reviewed by atlasmb 7 / 10

Suzanne Pleshette Explores The Beauty Of Italy

Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette) travels to Italy to discover adventure and finds Don Porter (Troy Donahue) and love. As they explore the areas around Rome, viewers are treated to some idyllic scenery. Their relationship has its ups and downs, especially when Don's former flame, played by Angie Dickinson, reenters his life.Through it all, the song "Al di la" is featured, and the film's grade deserves two bumps just for that. It may be the perfect accompaniment to a love story set in Italy. Even Al Hirt, who appears as a surprisingly engaging trumpeter in the film, plays a jazz rendition.This itinerant love story with a peripatetic plot loses focus on occasion, but it always come back to Prudence, where it belongs. Pleshette's beautiful quirkiness feels grounded in true love. No surprise, then, that Pleshette and Donahue would marry later.An uncreative ending deserves the loss of one grade point. But it is difficult to be very disappointed in a film that features so much beauty.
Reviewed by Doylenf 6 / 10

Trite love story elevated by lush Italian scenery and equally lush Max Steiner score...

ROME ADVENTURE has two things going for it: Gorgeous photography of famous Italian landmarks and landscapes, and a lush and very appropriate Max Steiner score that makes the most of "Al Di La." The scenery alone is worth giving the film at least 6 points, so it's a shame that the boy meets girl/boy loses girl/boy wins girl plot is so tiresome and moves at a snail's pace. By concentrating on the music and the scenery though, you can get a lot of pleasure from just watching this travelogue unfold.And, of course, no film about Italy in the '60s would be complete without the suave presence of ROSSANO BRAZZI as the older man that SUSANNE PLESHETTE finds hard to resist. But it's her affair with TROY DONAHUE--the blond Tab Hunter type of the '60s that teen-age girls swooned over--that occupies most of the story. The real life attraction between Pleshette and Donahue is evident in many of their flirtatious scenes. Alas, their good chemistry should have been given a more substantial script.The "other woman" role is ably played by ANGIE DICKINSON, who wears her stunning outfits to great effect. With all the eye candy going on, it's easy to see why ROME ADVENTURE was an easy pill to swallow.Max Steiner certainly comes to the rescue with a handsome score, its main source of pleasure being repeated hearings of the song "Al Di La." Summing up: Pleasurable fluff will have you dreaming of a luxurious vacation in the Italian alps.
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