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The Angel Wore Red (1960)

The Angel Wore Red poster
Directed by
Nunnally Johnson
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy, United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A war drama set during the Spanish Civil War. A priest falls for a woman caught in the conflict.

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What happens

The Angel Wore Red, also known as La sposa bella in its Italian version, is a 1960 Italian-American MGM/Titanus coproduction war drama starring Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde. It was directed by Nunnally Johnson and produced by Goffredo Lombardo from a screenplay by Johnson based on the 1953 novel The Fair Bride by Bruce Marshall. Giorgio Prosperi wrote the dialogue for the Italian version. The music score for the American version was written by Bronislau Kaper and by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino for the Italian version. The cinematography was handled by Giuseppe Rotunno. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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