Indiscretion of an American wife
Subtitle: & Terminal station
By: a David O. Selznick presentation ; screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi ; produced and directed by Vittorio de Sica ; dialogue by Truman Capote
Contributors: Jones, Jennifer, 1919-2009; Clift, Montgomery; Beymer, Richard, 1939-; Page, Patti; Columbia Pictures Corporation; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series: The Criterion collection -- 202; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 202.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2003
Place of publication: S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] ;
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781559409407
Subjects: Drama; Film adaptations; Man-woman relationships; Railroad stations; Adultery
Other titles: Indiscretion of an American wife (Motion picture); Terminal station.
Description: An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version, Terminal Station, was screened at a length of one-and-a-half hours, but after disappointing previews, Selznick severely re-edited it and changed the title to Indiscretion of an American Wife without De Sica's permission.
Notes: Special Features: new digital transfers of both versions of the film: Indiscretion of an American Wife: Selznick's 72-minute cut, including the Patti Page-performed overture "Autumn in Rome" and "Indiscretion"; Terminal Station (Stazione termini): De Sica's original 89-minute version; exclusive audio commentary on Indiscretion by film scholar Leonard Leff (Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick); original theatrical trailer; promotional materials.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1954.

Based on the story Terminal station, by Cesare Zavattini.

Photographed by Aldo Graziati ; edited by Eraldo da Roma ; music by Alessandro Cicognini ; conducted by Franco Ferrara.

Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Richard Beymer.

DVD; Dolby digital mono.; RSDL dual layer.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Indiscretion of an American wife (72 min.) / Selznick's cut, including the Patti Page-performed overture "Autumn in Rome" and "Indiscretion"; title: Terminal Station = Stazione termini (89 min.) / De Sica's original version.