Fatal Desire (film)

Fatal Desire (Italian: Cavalleria rusticana) is a 3-D Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone.^[1] The film is based on the opera Cavalleria rusticana and stars May Britt, Anthony Quinn, Ettore Manni, and Kerima. For the vocal parts Quinn was dubbed by Tito Gobbi.

Fatal Desire
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Art Cohn Francesco De Feo Basilio Franchina Carmine Gallone Guido Menasci (libretto) Mario Monicelli Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (libretto) Giovanni Verga
Starring	May Britt Anthony Quinn Ettore Manni
Cinematography	Riccardo Pallottini Karl Struss
Edited by	Rolando Benedetti
Music by	Pietro Mascagni
Distributed by	Minerva Film (Italy) Ultra Films Corp. (US)
Release dates	1953 (1953) (Italy) 9 January 1963 (1963-01-09) (United States)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin.

Cast

• May Britt as Santuzza
• Ettore Manni as Turiddu
• Kerima as Lola
• Anthony Quinn as Alfio
• Virginia Balestrieri as Mamma Lucia
• Umberto Spadaro as Uncle Brasi
• Grazia Spadaro as Aunt Camilla