This is really a boy meets girl film with plush Italian scenery and another memorable musical score by Max Steiner.
The story itself isn't really that noteworthy. An assistant librarian, Suzanne Pleshette, quits before she is removed from her Connecticut College position when she gives an unauthorized book to a student. Note that Norma Varden, the memorable housekeeper in "The Sound of Music" briefly appears as the college trustee who questions Pleshette at her hearing.
This all sets the stage for Pleshette's trip to Italy where she secures a position in an American bookstore, owned by a former American schoolteacher, the latter got tired of the brats and fell in love with Rome one summer vacation and wired her resignation.
At an inn, Pleshette meets Donahue who has just been thrown over by Angie Dickinson. Amazing that Dickinson got second billing as she basically didn't appear until later in the film. In addition, as an Italian, (of course) Rossano Brazzi was given little to do.
The endearing part of the movie is the plush scenes as we are literally swept into a tour of Italy.
The story itself isn't really that noteworthy. An assistant librarian, Suzanne Pleshette, quits before she is removed from her Connecticut College position when she gives an unauthorized book to a student. Note that Norma Varden, the memorable housekeeper in "The Sound of Music" briefly appears as the college trustee who questions Pleshette at her hearing.
This all sets the stage for Pleshette's trip to Italy where she secures a position in an American bookstore, owned by a former American schoolteacher, the latter got tired of the brats and fell in love with Rome one summer vacation and wired her resignation.
At an inn, Pleshette meets Donahue who has just been thrown over by Angie Dickinson. Amazing that Dickinson got second billing as she basically didn't appear until later in the film. In addition, as an Italian, (of course) Rossano Brazzi was given little to do.
The endearing part of the movie is the plush scenes as we are literally swept into a tour of Italy.