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Defend My Love

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Original title

Difendo il mio amore

Year

1956

Running time

95 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Giulio Macchi, Vincent Sherman

Screenwriter

Giorgio Prosperi, Jacques Robert. Plot: Ettore Giannini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Cast

Music

Renzo Rossellini

Cinematography

Gianni Di Venanzo (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Italy-France;

Les Films Marceau, Titanus

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins digging around in the past of a prominent banker's new wife. Before her marriage, she had been a nobleman's personal secretary until he was poisoned. The journalist soon learns that the woman's daughter was born out of wedlock. The woman explains that the child's father, her fiance, had been killed during the war. This does not prevent the reporter from publishing his tales. As a result even her husband begins to doubt her.Their lives change dramatically, when her daughter, who suffers from polio, is run over by a truck while trying to escape from photographers. The banker soon believes his honest wife. The sleazy reporter gets his just desserts.

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Defend My Love

1956

Giulio Macchi, Vincent Sherman