In einem anderen Land (1957)

In einem anderen Land: Directed by Charles Vidor, John Huston. With Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka. An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

“Obviously, a great deal of time and money was lavished on this project. Producer Selznick intended it to be a vindication of a career that peaked with u0026quot;Gone With The Windu0026quot; in 1939, and then began a long, slow, almost painful decline. By the mid fifties he had become something of a u0026quot;has-beenu0026quot; in Hollywood. The result? Pretty much a miss. The book is probably unfilmable, of course, but the screenplay still leaves much to be desired. Rock Hudson is far too shallow to make a go at the over-the-top emotionalism this story needs. The usually wonderful Jennifer Jones, for whom this project was conceived, somehow doesnu0026#39;t seem to exhibit the idealism and resolve the part needs, and that she demonstrated with such seemingly effortlessness in many other films. The direction is stilted and sometimes downright awkward, more the fault of producer Selznick, I would bet, who had a reputation for micro-managing his films, than famed director Charles Vidor.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSimply put, Iu0026#39;m never convinced, not even for a moment, that what is happening is real and not just another movie. Too bad.”