«This Angry Age» (1957) Anthony Perkins & Silvana Mangano

«This Angry Age» (aka «The Sea Wall»), the 1957 Italian-French-U.S. drama (in English), featuring Silvana Mangano, Anthony Perkins, Richard Conte and Jo Van Fleet, directed by René Clément, written by Irwin Shaw and René Clément, based on a novel by Marguerite Duras. Synopsis: The troubled story of a French woman (Jo Van Fleet) blinded by her dependency on her two grown children (Silvana Mangano and Anthony Perkins) and thwarted by the implacable conditions of life in rural Indochina. (This cropped, black & white copy of «This Angry Age» is the only English-language edition of the film currently available. A color copy of the Italian-language version is in circulation, but it lacks English subtitles. Two brief inserts from that version have been added (at the beginning and end of the film) to provide some examples of what «This Angry Age» looks like in color.)