Wild Is the Wind

US (1957): Drama

Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo, Anna Magnani played a widow who could never find a man to measure up to her late husband, in Wind she marries widowed rancher Anthony Quinn, who is haunted by the memory of his first spouse. The situation is dicier in Wind, since Italian immigrant Quinn's deceased wife was Magnani's sister. Eventually tiring of her husband's mood swings, Magnani turns to his son Anthony Franciosa for emotional and sexual gratification. A Hollywood approximation of the Italian neorealist school of filmmaking, Wild Is the Wind was based on "Furia," a story by Vittorio Nino Novarese. George Cukor directs for Paramount. (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)

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3 nominations