From the “strange bedfellows” department comes this collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica--in 1953, still Italy's chief exponent of Neorealism--and Hollywood producer David O. Selznick. As might be expected, Terminal Station is an offbeat film, and a properly odd platform for the steaming sensitivity of Montgomery Clift, as well as for the quirky side of Jennifer Jones. She plays an American housewife and mother who falls in love with an Italian professor (Clift) while on a trip to Rome. Most of the film takes place in the Stazione Termini, where the lovers enact what amounts to one of the screen's longest goodbyes. The screenplay by Cesare Zavattini (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief, etc.) is augmented by dialogue by Truman Capote (and the reputed but uncredited contributions of Carson McCullers, Alberto Moravia and Paul Gallico). Comparing the film to Rossellini's films with Ingrid Bergman (Stromboli, Voyage in Italy), Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas writes, “Apparently Terminal Station was too heady for American audiences in its initial release, and doubtlessly it still will be for many.... (However) De Sica may well have gotten from Jones her best performance ever...(and) Clift at his sensitive, impassioned best, and the film marks an extraordinary teaming of two remarkably vulnerable people.” Stazione Termini provided De Sica with his first popular hit on his home turf. In the U.S., under the title Indiscretions of an American Wife, it fared worse, and was cut considerably before its release. The 92-minute version we present tonight was not released here until 1983.