Claiming for fame as the first motion picture filmed in CinemaScope outside the United States, also manifestly cashing in on the exotic fad of Rome instigated by William Wyler's ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), Jean Begulesco's THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN faithfully takes its eye-pleasing duty to its heart, whose wide-screen camera insatiably pans and lingers across the most prestigious beauty spots in Rome and its environs (Villa d'Este in Tivoli featured prominently in the opening theme song, under Frank Sinatra's crooning rendition), to both salve and tantalize its sedentary spectators, while its treble central romances can only take a backseat and stuck in the rut of pleasant tediousness.
Three American secretaries living in Rome, Miss Frances (McGuire) is a spinster in her 30s (a staggering case of ageism?!), who has been a devoted secretary to the estimated expatriate American writer John Frederick Shadwell (Webb) for 15 years, for whom she has been carrying a torch ever since, only he is a congenital bachelor and scarcely susses her feelings; next is Anita Hutchins (Peters), who decides to go back to the States using a sham marriage as the pretext, and the truth is that she cannot find an ideal husband....
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Three American secretaries living in Rome, Miss Frances (McGuire) is a spinster in her 30s (a staggering case of ageism?!), who has been a devoted secretary to the estimated expatriate American writer John Frederick Shadwell (Webb) for 15 years, for whom she has been carrying a torch ever since, only he is a congenital bachelor and scarcely susses her feelings; next is Anita Hutchins (Peters), who decides to go back to the States using a sham marriage as the pretext, and the truth is that she cannot find an ideal husband....
read my entire review on my blog: cinema omnivore, thanks