About this title: Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters including such respected names as Dino Risi and Franco Brusati, but comes up as a soggy soap-opera rather than an imposing star-vehicle. Nino Rota's fine score and the always watchable Mangano are its only saving graces. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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Description: Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Demesnil, Vittorio Gassman, Patrizia and Natascia Mangano, Piero Lulli,... New in new packaging. Run time: 98. Sister Anna, a novice hospital nun, is shown as compassionate yet super-efficient, until a man from her past arrives for emergency surgery. As he fights for life, flashbacks reveal Anna's past as a very sexy nightclub singer torn between Andrea whom she loves, and Vittorio who has a seemingly unbreakable sexual hold on her. The ... read more
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