Is there anyone who has been to Rome and not thrown a coin into the Trevi fountain? Three American women visit the fountain at the beginning of this 1954 film by the Romanian director, Jean Negulesco, and, from that moment, we follow their search for love.
All three women, played by Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara, find love in a way but which love will endure? The men they fall for are played by Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan and Rossano Brazzi and Webb is delightful as the irascible John Frederick Shadwell.
The plot is, to say the least, flimsy but it doesn’t matter as the two real stars of the film are Rome itself and, of course, that song, written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn and sung, for the film, by Frank Sinatra.
The film won Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Music.
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Have you thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain?
