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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn reaches comic-opera stature as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, who becomes the town's hero as he cons the invading Germans out of nearly 1,000,000 bottles of vermouth. Anna Magnani as Rosa, his strong-willed wife, proves every bit the match for Bombolini-not to mention the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, and Anna Magnani as his unrelentingly strong-willed wife, Rosa, make a powerful combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. As Italo Bombolini, Anthony Quinn so skillfully cowers and struts in his roles of husband and boozy mayor that he achieves nothing less than comic-operatic stature. Anna Magnani, as his wife, proves every bit the match for the bombastic Bombolini with a performance as strong as the lines indelibly etched on her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...house where the cock is silent and the hen makes all the noise." So clucks a resident of Santa Vittoria, summarizing the marriage of the Bombolinis, Italo (Anthony Quinn) and Rosa (Anna Magnani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prosciutto and Melancholy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...recent past, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer has been notorious for the fustian message movie (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Ship of Fools). But in his adaptation of Robert Crichton's bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prosciutto and Melancholy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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