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The Visit

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The beautiful and wealthy Karla Zachanassian (Ingrid Bergman) has an affair with local guy Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn). However, when she becomes pregnant and he denies being the father of her child, Karla is shamed into leaving town. Years later, she returns and offers a large amount of money to the citizens of the small hamlet on the condition that Serge is killed. As the residents struggle with the troubling offer, they weigh the moral issues against considerable financial gain.
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Blobbo X Good adventure story, for young orphans especially. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/08/24 Full Review martin b A loser when it was made, perhaps because of the subject matter, it holds up well over time as social commentary. Excellent film. Bergman brilliant as the bitter, scandalized woman the perfectly elegant aged to perfection beauty on the hunt for retribution. Scowling, sneering, contemptuous at the right time with a radiant smile at others. Quinn never disappoints the perfect victim of Bergman's cunning plot. Watch it, you won't be disappointed. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie makes you have all sorts of different feelings for different characters at different times throughout this funny little movie and you are never sure which way it is going to go. Ingrid is superb and Anthony as usual doesn't disappoint. I liked this movie enough to watch it a second time and appreciated it all the more the second time as I knew what was going on. You need to watch it to know what I mean. I good story, not sure why its not more well known. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member A stupid story by somebody who might know people poorly. I'm fed up with "screenwriters" imagining a payment for a bad deed and not knowing what they have to say about the imagined deed. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review kevin w A poor and small village celebrates the surprise return of one of its ex-citizens (Ingrid Bergman) who has married well, married one of the world's richest men. At one time years previously she was going to wed one of the local boys (Anthony Quinn) but that didn't happen for some reason. Anyway, its good she's back now...or is it? One of the best films on the destructive power of complacency with its main problem being the miscasting of Ms. Bergman who for all her monumental talent, fails to impress as a soul once forced into a life of prostitution for years, undercutting the opening premise of the work. Still good though, and why isn't Quinn considered a national treasure by now? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member How could I have missed this great flick for so long?! Ingrid is fierce in this. Tremendous performance, and Quinn is finally toned down and dominated by a female costar. Ingrid’s costumes alone are slaying! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/14/19 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The beautiful and wealthy Karla Zachanassian (Ingrid Bergman) has an affair with local guy Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn). However, when she becomes pregnant and he denies being the father of her child, Karla is shamed into leaving town. Years later, she returns and offers a large amount of money to the citizens of the small hamlet on the condition that Serge is killed. As the residents struggle with the troubling offer, they weigh the moral issues against considerable financial gain.
Director
Bernhard Wicki
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Cinecittà
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 4, 1964, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2010
Runtime
1h 40m
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