Cinema: See Italy First

Rome Adventure (Warner) is a sumptuous brochure, photographed in color and mounted on widescreen, that gives millions of eager U.S. tourists a dozen reasons why they should see Italy first.

There is youth in Italy: Troy Donahue, 25, the puppy love of umpteen-agers, who is obviously growing with experience (particularly in the paunch).

There is beauty: Suzanne Pleshette, a recruit from television whose eyelashes, "the longest in Hollywood," do not quite conceal her meticulously well-rehearsed starlet smile.

There is drama: Suzanne meets Troy, Suzanne loses Troy to Angie Dickinson, Suzanne gets Troy.

There is poetry: "Your lips are like the inner petals of a rose."...

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