Rome Adventure

Director: Delmer Daves Delmer Daves

Overview

A young librarian at an all girl school appropriately named Prudence (Susan Pleshette) is reprimanded for recommending a racy, controversial book about love. She decides to head for Italy, the romance capital of the world. There she meets Roberto (Rossano Brazzi), who is more than willing to be her tender hearted tour guide. She meets Don (Troy Donahue) an art student with a pompadour and a motorcycle. Don has eyes for dear Prudence, but must get rid of his old girlfriend Lyda (Angie Dickinson). All the action takes place on a colorful tour throughout Italy.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/31/2017
UPC:	0888574535834
Original Release:	1962
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	20,969

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Suzanne Pleshette	Prudence Bell
Troy Donahue	Don Porter
Angie Dickinson	Lyda Kent
Rossano Brazzi	Roberto Orlandi
Constance Ford	Daisy
Al Hirt	Al
Hampton Fancher	Albert Stillwell
Iphigenie Castiglioni	Contessa
Chad Everett	Young Man
Gertrude Flynn	Mrs. Riggs
Pamela Austin	Agnes
Lili Valenty	Angelina
Mary Patton	Mrs. Bell
Maurice Wells	Mr. Bell

Technical Credits

Delmer Daves

Delmer Daves

Director,Screenwriter,Producer

Editorial Reviews

Rome Adventure belongs to an earlier, simpler time -- but it was not a good movie even then. That's not to say that Rome doesn't have some pleasures. For one thing, its simplicity, naivete and "innocence" (albeit of the manufactured Hollywood variety) can be quite amusing, especially to viewers who are fond of mocking such qualities. But it does have some legitimate assets, chief among them the lush Charles Lawton cinematography, which does an excellent job of capturing beautiful Italian landscapes and architecture. Indeed, the "travelogue" aspect of the film is quite seductive; it may add nothing to the film's drama, but it certainly makes the going much smoother. There's also Suzanne Pleshette, who is always worth watching. Granted, she's miscast here as a fretful virgin; Pleshette is simply too worldly wise to get away with that disguise, but she's also too good an actress to not have fun with it. Angie Dickinson is also on hand as some delicious eye candy, with Troy Donahue filling that role on the distaff side. But there's also the screenplay to deal with, a trite and contrived mishmash that hasn't an honest dramatic bone in its body. Delmer Daves applies his usual smooth, knowing direction to the affair, as he did to many similar romances of the period, but it just isn't convincing here. He might have been better to have junked the script altogether and just filmed Pleshette, Donahue and Dickinson standing and waving in front of the gorgeous scenery.