Checco Rissone, Doris Dowling, Raf Vallone, Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvan...( read more  read more... )a, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Giuseppe De Santis

Release Date: September 21, 1949

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  • June 24, 2009
    I saw this film in the fifties and remember it as a gripping dram.
    Silvana Mangano was billed as an exciting Italian Star of the fourties. Silvana had stiff competition from Anna Magnanj, another Italian atress of that era. At the time there was intense discussion and speculati...( read more)on in the public mind as to which of the two would ultimately outshine the other.

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