Luchino Visconti directs Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti and Juan de Landa in this Italian neo-realist crime thriller based on The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Remarkably frank about adulterous sex and surprisingly unguarded about one character’s homosexual desire (the clear suggestion is our feckless protagonist would be better off palling around with the fey gypsy). The best adaptation of the source material I’ve watched.

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Perfect Double Bill: La Terra Trema (1948)

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