Totally Unbelievable


...that someone as ugly as tony perkins could snag someone like sophia loren. Even more unbelievable that she'd go along with his manipulations.

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From watching just a small amount of this film, Tony looks very uncomfortable kissing Sophia !

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Tony is sooooooo hot in this movie.I guess you do not have taste at all!

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I agree, Anthony Perkins was a LOT more attractive than Loren's real husband, Carlo Ponti.

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Isn't it weird that he did two movies with Sophia Loren? And what with Janet Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Melina Mercouri, Shirley MacLaine, Brigitte Bardot - MAN, he had a lot of beautiful and superfamous costars. I always thought he was brilliant in Psycho but never got any other roles half as challenging. And yet I missed all of this!

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First of all, Anthony Perkins was never ugly. Second of all Sophia Loren married Carlo Ponti a man older--and if you must--uglier than she was. Beautiful women marry all kinds of men in real life why wouldn't they do it on screen?

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It isn't that Tony Perkins was ugly, because he isn't, but it's hard to believe that Sophia Loren's character would be in love with this very thin, boyish and immature guy. What did she see in him? I could see it if he were immature but a bit more macho, someone like Steve McQueen or Paul Newman or even Robert Redford, but Anthony Perkins feels too weak to be manipulative enough through masculine charms, so it doesn't work at all for me. BAD CASTING!

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from the small back story they give it seems she was happy just to get out of her small town and married him for that purpose. although she confesses that she did love him at first. he was an american GI when she met him after all

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She had her own job and should have left him a while ago. Maybe she got together with him partly out of desperation and/or because she thought he was cute. But after a while she should have realized it was a big mistake and shouldn't have lasted as long as she did. It strains credulity.

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Robert Macklin is quite a charmer. I can totally him putting on a fake act and fitting in with Lisa and Barbara's friends. Soon after they married, I'm sure he dropped the act and started hitting and manipulating Lisa.

I agree that Bob is ugly on the inside but I think he's attractive on the outside.



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Bob (Perkins) made the point several times in the film - as if to rub it in, or lord it over her - that he had "rescued" her from a life of poverty in some horrid, poor town called Scafati, in southern Italy. I guess she jumped at the chance to get out of town as it were, and she took up with Bob as a marriage of convenience. So I guess in that sense it's believable.


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