Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 11/02/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DDM2.0
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Adapted by playwright
John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker
John H. Secondari,
Three Coins in the Fountain offers the splendors of Rome in Technicolor, CinemaScope and Stereophonic Sounds. For all its lovely picture-postcard images, the film is at base a reworking of 20th Century-Fox' favorite plotline: three pretty girls on the prowl for husbands. The three lovelies, who toss their coins in the Trevi fountain and wish for romance, include
Dorothy McGuire,
Jean Peters and
Maggie McNamara. Before the film is over, secretary
McGuire has wooed her boss,
Clifton Webb,
Peters has won the heart of a co-worker Italian translator
Rossano Brazzi (despite being fired, in the process, for having an office romance); and
McNamara finds happiness with prince
Louis Jourdan.
Three Coins in the Fountain won two Academy Awards: "Best Color Cinematography" (
Milton Krasner), and "Best Song" (written by
Sammy Cahn and
Jimmy Van Heusen, and sung in the pre-credits sequence by an uncredited
Frank Sinatra). The film was remade in 1965 as
The Pleasure Seekers, and also served as the basis for a never-sold TV pilot starring
Yvonne Craig,
Cynthia Pepper and
Joanna Moore.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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