This Angry Age

This Angry Age (also known as The Sea Wall, Barrage contre le Pacifique, and La diga sul Pacifico) is a 1957 Italian-American drama film directed by René Clément, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and starring Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano. It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' 1950 novel The Sea Wall. The original novel was adapted again in 2008 by Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall, starring Isabelle Huppert. Plot Twenty-year-old Joseph (Perkins) and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne (Mangano) live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother (Van Fleet). Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael (Conte) and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude (Valli). Cast Anthony Perkins as Joseph Dufresne Silvana Mangano as Suzanne Dufresne Richard Conte as Michael Jo Van Fleet as Mme. Dufresne Alida Valli as Claude Nehemiah Persoff as Albert Yvonne Sanson as Carmen Guido Celano as Bart Production Clément 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 film's producer, was cast in the female lead.