The Rose Tattoo

IMDb link: 0048563
IMDb rating: 6.9 (4,996 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Burt Lancaster, Daniel Mann
Cast: Anna Magnani, Ben Cooper, Marisa Pavan and others

Release date: 13 Dec 1955
Release year: 1955
Runtime: 117 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: truck driver, italian american, seamstress, sparkling wine, screenplay adapted by author, church bazaar, catholicism, mental depression, seaman, black goat

Plot:

An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period of years draws more and more into herself, trying to force her lovely teenaged daughter Rosa to do likewise. On one eventful day, Rose finally breaks away; Serafina learns of Rosario's affair with another woman; and a new carefree, handsome Italian truck driver enters her life...

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