Terminal Station (film)

Terminal Station
Italian theatrical release poster
ItalianStazione Termini
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Directed byVittorio De Sica
Written byLuigi Chiarini
Giorgio Prosperi
Truman Capote
Based onStazione Termini
(short story)
by Cesare Zavattini
Produced byVittorio De Sica
StarringJennifer Jones
Montgomery Clift
CinematographyG.R. Aldo
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Jean Barker
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
Production
companies
Produzione Film Vittorio De Sica
Produzioni De Sica
Selznick Releasing Organization
Distributed byColumbia Pictures (United States)
Lux Film (Italy)
Release dates
  • April 2, 1953 (1953-04-02) (Italy)
  • June 25, 1954 (1954-06-25) (New York)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesItaly
United States
LanguagesEnglish
Italian

Terminal Station (Italian: Stazione Termini, released in the United States as Indiscretion of an American Wife) is a 1953 romantic drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift and Richard Beymer. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian intellectual. The title refers to the Roma Termini railway station in Rome, where the film takes place. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film by Italian director De Sica, as an international coproduction with American mogul David O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences that resulted in two different versions of the film, an 89-minute Italian version and a 72-minute American recut version under the alternate title Indiscretion of an American Wife. After this experience, De Sica never again worked with a Hollywood producer, although he would continue to direct English-language films with American actors.