Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) - (Movie Clip) That's How They Betray Us

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Opposites Attract

Friends again, in lingerie in their barracks, Francesca (Doris Dowling) telling Silvana (Mangano) about her fugitive boyfriend, Gabriella (Maria Grazia Francia) suffering from work in the rice paddies, in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Only Women Can Do It

Location shots by Otello Martelli in the Po river valley, Lamberto Maggiorani, star of The Bicycle Thief as a radio announcer, serious Neo-Realist credentials, opening critic-turned-director Giuseppe de Santis' Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Embrace Me

Still in the opening sequence, Walter (Vittorio Gassman) almost caught by fellow thugs at the train station, getting help first from girlfriend Francesca (Doris Dowling), then stranger Silvana (Silvana Mangano), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Argentina

Veteran Silvana (Mangano) and rookie Francesca (Doris Dowling) arrive with fellow rice workers (Anna Maestri, Dody Ristori, Maria Grazia Francia, et al) bumping soldiers from the barracks, and meeting sergeant Marco (Raf Vallone), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.