[3] Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film of Italian director De Sica, as an international co-production with American mogul David O. Selznick.

While visiting her sister in Rome, Mary Forbes, an American housewife, has a month-long affair with Giovanni Doria, an Italian academic.

[5] The film was an international co-production between De Sica's own company and the Hollywood producer David O. Selznick, who commissioned it as a vehicle for his wife, Jennifer Jones.

Carson McCullers was originally chosen to write the screenplay, but Selznick fired her and replaced her with a series of writers, including Paul Gallico, Alberto Moravia and Capote.

"[6] During filming, Jones was distracted and saddened by the recent death of her former husband, actor Robert Walker, and badly missed her two sons, who were at school in Switzerland.

[5] The Buffalo Evening News reviewer thought the production “beautifully photographed and technically tip top,” but was less happy with the plot and its unfolding: “Mr.