Synopsis
The Rose Tattoo (1955) is a Paramount melodrama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Daniel Mann from Tennessee Williams' own screenplay — his adaptation of the 1951 stage play he wrote with Anna Magnani specifically in mind. The setting is a close-knit Italian-immigrant community on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Serafina Delle Rose (Magnani) built her entire existence around a dead husband — a truck driver shot during a police chase while running contraband. She controls her daughter, seals herself off from the world, and venerates his memory like a relic. Then she learns he had been keeping a mistress. That's when Alvaro arrives: Burt Lancaster, all restless physical energy and clumsy charm, impossible to turn away.
Magnani took home the Academy Award for Best Actress; James Wong Howe's stark black-and-white photography claimed the cinematography Oscar, and the film picked up art direction as well — three statues in all. Watch The Rose Tattoo (1955) online on iFILM.
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