Johnny Mathis recorded the song for the film and released it as a single in November 1957. 18 of 20 people found this review helpful. As Rosanna has long passed, and as Angie is away at school in Boston, Gino has made the decision to marry Rosanna's sister Gioia in Italy without the two even having met beforehand, she who will move to Nevada to live on the farm.
Certificate: Passed An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1958, but lost to "All the Way" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from The Joker's Wild. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. This "women's director" was also no slouch with men, and he helps Anthony Quinn to perhaps his best performance. For other uses, see 22 on the Billboard chart. A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello. She turns outside of her marriage to fulfill her needs and has an affair with Bene (Anthony Franciosa), a ranch hand whom Gino raised from boyhood and considers as almost a son. Magnani is predictably great, even singing well, and Tony Franciosa, as Quinn's adopted son who forms an O'Neill-like triangle (it does feel like "Desire Under the Elms," as another commenter noted), is excellent. With Gino feeling disappointed with her, Gioia feels neglected and resentful that she is constantly being compared with her late sister and found wanting.
Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Gino hired Bene when he was just a boy and treats him like a son - planning on giving him the entire operation when the time comes - Bene being his true son which he has long planned as he has always seen Bene marrying his now twenty-one year old daughter, Angie, although neither Bene or Angie has ever said anything to Gino about it or has ever needed to say anything to the other in it never coming to pass in not feeling that way about the other. 2 wins & 5 nominations. A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster. It tells the story of an American rancher who, after his wife dies, goes to Italy to marry her sister, but finds that she falls in love with his young ranch hand. "Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind. Eager for a job, journalist Adam White accepts the lowly position of columnist for the advice-giving section of the Chronicle but he often clashes with his cynical editor, Shrike. Quinn often overacted, and here, as a hearty, swaggering, brutish sheep rancher who brings his dead wife's sister (Anna Magnani) over from Italy to marry, he easily could have resorted to his usual bluster.
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Italian immigrant Gino Micelli and his wife Rosanna started with virtually nothing, which Gino has now built up into a successful northern Nevada sheep farming operation with his brother Alberto, Alberto's wife Teresa, and their longtime hand, Bene. In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. Wild is the Wind is a 1957 film directed by George Cukor and starring Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Franciosa. Was this review helpful to you? In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period ... But it's a very shaded portrayal, with seemingly conflicting elements of roughness and tenderness that make sense in the end. With Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Anthony Franciosa, Joseph Calleia. This article is about the film. Mathis' version reached No. Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business. Adventure Directed by George Cukor. The outdoorsiness and earthiness (you even see a lamb born, before your boggled eyes) are un-Cukorlike, but he handles them confidently; and while the symbolism gets a little heavy and Dmitri Tiomkin's music is a bit intrusive, it's an effective family melodrama with a beautifully underplayed fadeout.Looking for something to watch?