Product Details

• Actors: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, Suzanne Pleshette, Constance Ford
• Directors: Delmer Daves
• Writers: Delmer Daves, Irving Fineman
• Producers: Delmer Daves
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, Italian
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 27, 1993
• Run Time: 119 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302004373
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,835 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Set sail for Italy, April 28, 1999

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This review is from: Rome Adventure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm admittedly biased: this has been my favorite film since it captured my budding romantic soul at 13 in 1963. Suzanne Pleshette is wonderful in this, her first film. Troy Donahue is great to look at albeit a terrible actor. Angie Dickinson is a treat in the film as well. This film offers old fashioned romanticism, absolutely breathtaking Italian and Swiss scenery, a hauntingly beautiful Max Steiner score, and great overall corniness. Also appearing is a very suave Rossano Brazzi, and Al Hirt is seen in a cameo role. The beautiful, haunting song "Al Di La" featured in the film had recently won the San Remo song festival, and was later recorded by Connie Francis. This film really captures early 60's American mores, and reflected a time when people often sailed, rather than flew to Europe!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To Troy, September 4, 2001

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gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rome Adventure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I want to say something more about this film because it deserves more than I am saying right now. However, I just tonight heard the news about you. This film is a little away from the mold of A SUMMER PLACE, PARRISH and SUSAN SLADE also directed by Delmar Daves personally for you. Daves definitely saw something in you that the critics didn't. But there are a lot of us out there who also saw what director Daves saw. You represented that slightly shy, slightly naive brooding All-American youth that somehow outlived his usefulness on the screen many years ago. You had your day in the sun however short-lived that time was. Yet you brought many of us happiness and a hope for the future. You thrived at a time that was so fleeting that one wonders if it ever really existed. This film is the proof that those times did really once exist. ROME ADVENTURE's images hold perhaps your best performance. You held your ground convincingly in scenes with the virile Rossano Brazzi. You looked like the worldly traveler as you toured Italy with Suzanne Pleshette. You looked like the seasoned lover in your scenes with Angie Dickinson. You did it all in a way that no one else could. My daughter was only 6 or 7 years old in 1993 but you were the first movie star that she ever took notice of and liked. I always found that amazing and that is a memory that nobody can take away. In our household you were not a heartthrob. You were an actor and real person. I'll admit that she kind of grew out of your films of late. But tonight I saw a tear in her eye and I am sure she is not alone. It was very strange, earlier today we were driving by the Congregational Church in Essex where the wedding scenes for PARRISH were filmed and we stopped a few minutes just to take notice. I now wonder about those few minutes. The day is coming to an end. It is dark outside now. Tonight I will think of all those that were touched by you. You will be missed. Godspeed.

38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will fall in love., September 13, 2002

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Rick D. Barszcz (bristol, ct United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rome Adventure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

No matter how many times i watch this movie i fall deeply in love with Italy. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the beautiful music score that plays almost constantly during the movie. When it comes to romance this is the ultimate and Troy Donahue gives his best performance. I have traveled a good portion of the world but i have to admit being in Italy has to be the most romantic. I'm a motor cycle, leather wearing type of guy but when i watch this movie i turn into a complete hopeless romantic. I'm also a big Troy Donahue fan and all his other films like "Summer Place", "Parish" and "Susan Slade" (the only movie not available on VHS) are all wonderful. These films might be very 60's but they are all sweet, romantic classic movies that will warm the coldest heart. Just one more comment,,,,,will SOMEONE please put these on DVD.....Please.....