Wild Is the Wind (1957)

Academy Awards, USA 1958

Nominee Oscar	Best Actor in a Leading Role Anthony Quinn
	Best Actress in a Leading Role Anna Magnani
	Best Music, Original Song Dimitri Tiomkin (music) Ned Washington (lyrics) For the song "Wild Is the Wind"

Paramount Pictures
Directed by George Cukor
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(rarefilmm.com)

Anthony Quinn is an Italian rancher and widow in Nevada who brings over his sister-in-law from the the homeland to be his new wife. She happily accepts her new role in the boisterous home. However, his drunken outbursts come to a head when he repeatedly calls her by her sister's name, especially in front of the entire family celebrating their upcoming marriage. Meanwhile, a ranch hand and adopted son of Quinn falls for her, and they end up sleeping together while he is away for business. Quinn returns home and the fireworks fly, but he ends up begging her to stay anyway. Overacted by both Quinn and Anna Magnani despite their nominations. Virtually unseen in decades, probably because of an unedited scene of a sheep giving birth which is totally unnecessary to the plot.