Three Coins in the Fountain

:

Overview

Three Coins in the Fountain
Critics' Rating:
read review
Avg. User Rating:
0 ratings
Your Rating:
write a review
NR,2hrs 0min
Genres:
Release:
1954
Director:
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
Three Coins in the Fountain is good melodrama thanks in large part to the film's Oscar-winning music and cinematography on the one hand and its shallow script on the other. Watching it confers on the viewer the same benefit as a noonday nap: pleasant oblivion. Frank Sinatra sings the title song, a winner that made Rome's Trevi Fountain -- into which visitors toss a coin to assure their eventual return ... Full Review
Featured Cast
John Frederick Shadwell
Miss Francis
Anita Hutchins
Prince Dino Di Cessi
advertisement