Best remembered for its Oscar winning theme song popularized by Frank Sinitra, 'Three Coins in the Fountain' is a beautifully shot Cinemascope travel log/romance that sees three American expats in Rome, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters and Maggie McNamara find love with Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi and Louise Jordan respectively. A surprise hit for 20th Century Fox the film brought in $12 million theatrically world wide off a $1.7 million budget. Based on a 1952 best selling novel the property has been remade for film and television 4 times and it's story was skreward in the critically paned Kristin Bell comedy 'When in Rome' in 2010. This is a breezy, light romance, non consiquental but generally likable, often corny it's ending is a monument to sentimentality and cheese. ***
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