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Rome Adventure [VHS]

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4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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!

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.

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.....

I found the cd that contains the very song Al Di La from the film Rome Adventure. The title of the cd is Viva Italia! Festive Italian Classics, track 19-Al Di La-Frankie Fanelli (from the film Rome Adventure).

"excellent forever" is what my mother said about this movie !!... she asked me to buy it ... but I want it in DVD !!
When is going to come this movie in DVD format ????

As usual, there is a deluge of junk released on DVD, yet the classics from the 50's and 60's are left by the wayside! Movies like this and A Summer Place, Lucy Gallant, Susan Slade brings me back to being a teen-ager again. I was in love with Troy and pictured myself in all these movies as the female lead. If anyone remembers `The Million Dollar Movie' or `The Late Show', these types of films were main stays and you could see them all week long. Why must we beg for these movies to be released? What about Parrish or Palm Springs Weekend? Maybe if all us fans write to the studios, they will realize that there is a market for these films and that most of us don't want to see 6 episodes of a cancelled TV show put out on DVD within weeks of the cancellation- Just maybe we would like to see something from a more innocent, gentler time.

This is one of the movies my mother loves since she was 13 and she saw it on a movie theater... Ever since DVD format came out, she askes me every now and then if this movie is already on DVD. Too bad studios don't think it's worthwhile to release a DVD version of a movie classic that portrays beautiful scenarios around Italy, particulary Rome and its surroundings.

"Rome Adventure" showcases so much Italian scenery that you will want to hop on a plane and go there! Suzanne Pleshette is fabulous as Prudence Bell, a former librarian in search of love in Italy. Troy Donahue, who is not exactly known for his fine acting skills, really does pretty well in his role as Don Porter, the man Prudence falls for. Constance Ford is great as Prudence's boss, Daisy. Hampton Francher plays the nerdy but loveable Albert Stillwell so well that part of you will want Prudence to fall for him in the end over Donahue. The storyline is a bit predictable at times, but the characters are all so likeable that you can watch this film again and again and never get bored! I echo the sentiment of the other reviewer who begs for this film, along with other classics like "Parrish", "A Summer Place" and "Susan Slade" to please be made available on DVD by Warner Brothers!!!!

Film was very enjoyable with a nice story and good actors. My only complaint was that the coloring was somewhat pale from what it was when I saw the film in the theater.

This movie was a love story that portrayed my life. I saw this movie in 1962 and when ever I heard the song Al-Di-La I knew that someone I loved was thinking about me and was near. This movie will always be # 1 to me and the beautiful song AL-Di-La. It shows the way true love should be. Also the scenery was breath taking. I may sound old-fashion but I wish the movies of today would be more like this one.