Terminal Station (film)
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| Italian | Stazione Termini |
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Written by | Luigi Chiarini Giorgio Prosperi Truman Capote |
| Based on | Stazione Termini (short story) by Cesare Zavattini |
| Produced by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Starring | Jennifer Jones Montgomery Clift |
| Cinematography | G.R. Aldo |
| Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma Jean Barker |
| Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (United States) Lux Film (Italy) |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | Italy United States |
| Languages | English 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.