In the Italian Dolomites a British composer (Michael Denison) loves an Italian girl (Valentina Cortese) who had saved his life during the war. This finely-cast soap opera, which also features the great Italian baritone Tito Gobbi, was an enormous British success, less so in its American release. A great deal of it has to do with its wonderful music including an invented opera by the great film-composer Nino Rota, who provided scores for Fellini's best films. Much of the film was shot on location in the Dolomites and at Venice's La Fenice Opera House, destroyed in recent years by a tragic fire. This is a film that is very much worth re-discovering.
Review of The Glass Mountain
