Product Description

Tired of stuffy New England, Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette in her first major role) longs for a Rome Adventure. So she heads for the Eternal City and encounters a handsome student (Troy Donahue), a dashing older man (Rossano Brazzi) - and competition from a wily woman of the world (Angie Dickinson). In his fourth collaboration with Donahue (the first was A Summer Place), writer/director Delmer Daves again proves his skill at bringing the heartbreak and joys of romance to the movies. Here, Daves also lushly captures the incredible art and architecture of Rome. Then, in several beautiful scenes, his young lovers take a holiday to the Italian Alps, Verona, Pisa, Lake Maggiore and more breathtaking sights. How romantic is Rome Adventure? Well, the stars Pleshette and Donahue married two years later!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42923 in DVD
• Formats: NTSC, Color, Widescreen
• Subtitled in: English, French, Portuguese
• Running time: 118 minutes

Customer Reviews

Rome Adventure
This is the ultimate in love stories. I've also had this movie as a favorite since I was a teen and was so happy when it was released in DVD. The story is of an independent thinking librarian who "allows" a student to be exposed to a love story. With her job in jeopardy she leaves and goes off to Rome to seek happiness. While there she meets and falls in love with Troy Donahue. The scenery of Rome and Northern Italy is exquisite. She holds out for love and the story ends happily ever after. In these difficult times a fairy tale now and then is a great escape.

Troy's sensitivity for all to see.
I feel Troy Donahue was one of the tradgedies of Holloywood.He burst on the secene in the late 50's when love/rommance motion pictures were rapidly giving way to action,adventure,obscentiy,nudity,violence and all the other vulgarities we see today.He displayed Charisma,warmth,and a real screen presense in the films he made.Rome adventure was the film in which His latent talent started to bloom.It was truly tragic He was never given more adult roles with greater physcological depth but was all too often cast as the teenage heart throb.By the mid 60's the type of films in which he was at his best were no longer in vouge and he was discarded.But for a brief period of 5 or 6 years he brought a sensitivity to romance that has not been seen since and rarely before.I look back nostalgically on those years when he was truly the prince of Hollywood.

Troy, You Will Never Be Forgotten

I want to say something more about this film because it deserves more than I am saying right now. However, I remember the day heard the news of your passing. This film is a little away from the mold of A SUMMER PLACE, PARRISH and SUSAN SLADE also directed by Delmar Daves personally for you. Daves definitely saw something in you that the critics didn't. But there are a lot of us out there who also saw what director Daves saw. You represented that slightly shy, slightly naive brooding All-American youth that somehow outlived his usefulness on the screen many years ago. You had your day in the sun however short-lived that time was. Yet you brought many of us happiness and a hope for the future. You thrived at a time that was so fleeting that one wonders if it ever really existed. This film is the proof that those times did really once exist. ROME ADVENTURE's images hold perhaps your best performance. You held your ground convincingly in scenes with the virile Rossano Brazzi. You looked like the worldly traveler as you toured Italy with Suzanne Pleshette. You looked like the seasoned lover in your scenes with Angie Dickinson. You did it all in a way that no one else could. My daughter was only 6 or 7 years old in 1993 but you were the first movie star that she ever took notice of and liked. I always found that amazing and that is a memory that nobody can take away. In our household you were not a heartthrob. You were an actor and real person. I'll admit that she kind of grew out of your films of late. I remember that night I saw a tear in her eye and I am sure she was not alone. It was very strange, several years back on that day we were driving by the Congregational Church in Essex where the wedding scenes for PARRISH were filmed and we stopped a few minutes just to take notice. I still to this day wondered about those few moments. I remember the day coming to an end. It was growing dark outside. That night I thought of all those that were touched by you. You will be missed I thought and you still are. Godspeed. Troy, you will never be forgotten.