It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet.

Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian seamstress, living in a community in proximity to the Gulf of Mexico,[4] fiercely proud of and loyal to her truck-driving husband Rosario, is pregnant with her second child.

She decides to attend her daughter's graduation, but two prostitutes arrive demanding that she quickly mend their bandanas for a political convention.

Determined to find out the truth about Rosario, Serafina heads to the church to ask the priest if her husband had confessed to an affair with another woman.

Once there, she meets Estelle, who confesses and shows Serafina the rose tattooed on her chest as a symbol of her love for Rosario.

Alvaro turns up hours later severely intoxicated, and Serafina leaves him in a drunken stupor and retires to bed.

Serafina then calls Alvaro down from the boat mast before declaring in front of her neighbors that they have to pick up from where they left off the night before.

"[5] Tennessee Williams insisted Magnani be given the female lead and Wallis agreed, feeling Maureen Stapleton was "too young and too American.

[4] The premiere of the film was held in New York City at the Astor Theatre on December 12, 1955,[1] with Arthur Miller, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield among the celebrities in attendance.