A BREATH OF SCANDAL / DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS

A BREATH OF SCANDAL (1960):
94 minutes
Synopsis It's 1907 in Vienna, the "City of the Waltz." Beautiful Sophia Loren is the Austrian princess who, despite her exile from the familial estate for "scandalous indiscretions," scorns her mother's wish to marry a prince. Instead, she sets her sights on handsome John Gavin, a visiting American mining engineeer who has garnered the approval of her father (Maurice Chevalier) as well. Michael Curtiz directs, and Angela Lansbury provides icy snap as a scheming countess. With the elaborate costumes and sumptuous decor of Viennese society, A Breath of Scandal is a breezy, charming and refreshing romantic comedy that sets Emperor Franz Joseph's court abuzz with unrestrained gossip!

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (1958):
110 minutes
Eugene O'Neill's riveting play about a family torn apart by greed explodes onto the screen in a soaring film version starring Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren. Perkins is the farmer's son Eben, awaiting the day he will inherit the land from his tyrannical, widowed father (Burl Ives). But when Eben's father takes a new wife and announces he'll leave the farm to her, passions erupt in a fiery night of lust and fury between Eben and his new stepmother (Sophia Loren, in her Hollywood film debut). With a sweeping score by Elmer Bernstein, Desire Under The Elms sizzles with a heated story of passion unleashed and temptation unbridled, and a heavy price paid for the pleasures of sin.

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