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(Archway Films) JE have known for some time that though the Italian studios have produced since the war some of the best films ever, they are also capable of pro-ducing-in pursuit of the Hollywooden ideal-some of the worst. Anna is a dull one about a night club singer who joins a religious nursing order when one of her two lovers kills the other-the baddie, as it happens-in a fight. The way things were going there was really no reason why she should, but even so, I’m sure the film could have been made more interesting than it is. Silvana Mangano, as she showed in Bitter Rice, is one of the most vital of the new Italian actresses, but even she and Vittorio Gassman can’t bring this piece to life-which suggests to me that there's a pretty fundamental fault somewhere,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 17
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