This Angry Age

This Angry Age also known as The Sea Wall, Barrage contre le Pacifique and La diga sul Pacifico is a 1958 drama film directed by Ren Clment and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras 1950 novel, The Sea Wall. The film stars Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano. The original novel was adapted again in 2008 by Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall, starring Isabelle Huppert.

Clment purchased the film rights to the Duras novel in 1956. The original male lead was supposed to have been James Dean, but he was replaced by Perkins. Mangano, the wife of the films producer, was cast in the female lead.Clment shot the film in widescreen Technirama and Technicolor. He was unable to film in Indochina, the setting of the original novel, as it no longer existed. Nor could he film in the newly independent Vietnam, as nationalist struggles continued there. Thus, Clment reconstructed the storys setting in Thailand. ........

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