Woman Of The River

After Loren made her first big splash in GOLD OF NAPLES, Carlo Ponti rushed her into this film, a loose remake of BITTER RICE, which had shot Silvana Mangano, the wife of Ponti's partner, Dino De Laurentiis, to stardom five years before. Loren is the sexiest girl at an eel cannery and she is loved by Oury, the local constable. She, however, is in love with fisherman Battaglia, who works as a smuggler to make ends meet. Battaglia leaves town, and Loren follows him, telling him she is pregnant and the police are after him. He thinks she is simply trying to force him to marry her and he rudely sends her away. Angry and brokenhearted, she turns stool pigeon and tells O...