Rome Adventure

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Rome Adventure, 1962.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Rome Adventure, 1962.

Fresh off the boat, American Prudence (Suzanne Pleshette) with companions Albert (Hampton Fancher) and Roman Alberto (Rossano Brazzi), who has arranged lodgings, meeting the countess (Iphigenie Castiglione), then leading man Troy Donahue, as distracted Don, in Rome Adventure, 1962.

Young Suzanne Pleshette is composure itself, as librarian Prudence, telling off her bosses (led by Norma Varden) with a clever nod to the book on which the movie is based then, with parents (Mary Patton, Maurice Wells), disembarking, meeting Albert (Hampton Fancher), opening Rome Adventure, 1962.

Don (Troy Donahue), American studying architecture in Rome, after another joyful date with his new, also-American girlfriend Prudence (Suzanne Pleshette), confronted by his cynical ex Lyda (Angie Dickinson), who, though she is using him, remains hard to resist, in Delmer Daves’ melodrama Rome Adventure, 1962.

Experienced ex-pat architecture student Don (Troy Donahue) in Rome is now friendlier with his new American co-lodger Prudence (Suzanne Pleshette), who’s landed a new job, and director Delmer Daves takes the opportunity to resume his travelogue mode, in Rome Adventure, 1962.

Librarian and temporary Roman resident Prudence (Suzanne Pleshette), rejected by her American lover, attempts to throw herself at Roberto (Rossano Brazzi), her benevolent instructor in all things Italian, in Delmer Daves' Rome Adventure, 1962.