Terminal Station (film)

Terminal Station
Italian theatrical release poster
Italian	Stazione Termini
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Written by	Luigi Chiarini Giorgio Prosperi Truman Capote
Based on	Stazione Termini (short story) by Cesare Zavattini
Produced by	Vittorio De Sica
Starring	Jennifer Jones Montgomery Clift
Cinematography	G.R. Aldo
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma Jean Barker
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production companies	Produzione Film Vittorio De Sica Produzioni De Sica Selznick Releasing Organization
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (United States) Lux Film (Italy)[1] United Artists (International)[2]
Release dates	2 April 1953 (1953-04-02) (Italy) 10 May 1954 (1954-05-10) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	Italy United States
Languages	Italian English

Terminal Station (Italian: Stazione Termini, released in the United States as Indiscretion of an American Wife)^[3] is a 1953 romantic drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, and Richard Beymer (credited as "Dick Beymer") in his debut role. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian intellectual. The title refers to the Roma Termini railway station in Rome, where the film takes place. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.^[4]

Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film of Italian director De Sica, as an international co-production with American mogul David O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences between them that resulted in two different versions of the same film, an 89 minute Italian version and a 72 minute American recut under the alternate title Indiscretion of an American Wife. The experience was such that De Sica never worked with a Hollywood producer again, though he would make future English-language films with American actors.