Rome Adventure ( Lovers Must Learn )

Rome Adventure (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Lovers Must Learn
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Delmer Daves

Written By:
Irving Fineman
Delmer Daves

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

Synopsis:

Delmer Daves directs this cross between a travelog and a routine romantic drama set in Italy. The story begins when beautiful librarian Prudence (a misnomer, played by Suzanne Pleshette) decides to take off for Italy. She works in a women's college and was brought up short for recommending a racy book to one of the students. In a huff, she opts to go to the land of opera and find out if Italian men are as romantic as legend maintains. Once there, she runs into Roberto (Rossano Brazzi), who is likely to prove the legend true, and meets Don (Troy Donahue), an American running away from the love of his life, Lyda (Angie Dickinson). Between the glamour and the setting, Daves has geared this fluffy tale for the more innocent-minded teen set.

To demonstrate the beauty of love to a student to whom love had been made to be an ugly thing, twenty-one year old Prudence Bell, the assistant librarian at Briarcroft College for Women in Connecticut, provides a copy of a banned romance novel to that student. Due to this action, Prudence faces disciplinary action from the school's board. Instead, Prudence, who has never experienced love herself, decides to take her own advice by quitting, and searching for love by traveling by ship from New York to Rome, where she plans to live. There, she begins a romance with Don Porter, an American graduate student, who has been living in Rome for the past year in the same villa where Prudence is staying. Despite doing nothing improper, they keep their romance a secret if only to stop the gossip in the villa, especially about the summer vacation they take together. An obstacle in their romance arises in the form of artist Lyda Kent, Don's former and more experienced girlfriend, with whom he had a year long romance which she ended turbulently. Lyda's return to Rome is accompanied by some personal issues she is facing which she wants Don's help to resolve. Believing she needs to compete on Lyda's level not only for Don but men in general, Prudence seeks advice from her man-wise boss, bookstore owner Daisy Bronson, and Roberto Orlandi, a suave Italian she met on the trans-Atlantic trip, he who wanted to be Prudence's first love.

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 June, 2011.

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