why bother to see this movie . it probably rate an award for be the bad career move of a major movie star since clark gable laughable playing of an irish patriot in parnell . it inconceivable that bergman would choose both this movie and it director over a lucrative hollywood career where she could choose among the fine script and director be offer at that time . to begin with and there be no script to work with except a few note . then we be suppose to believe the polished bergman a a poor refugee willing to do anything to be release from a refugee camp and include marriage to a poor italian fisherman she doesn not even love . i read where anna magnani be the original choice for this part . if so and that make a lot more sense than to cast the luminous bergman in such a proletarian part . but since she be in love with her director and common sense fly out the window . so she go to live in this poor village where the men must toil to extract a meager living from the sea . a place she obviously hat to be and where she doesn not fit in . her only friend be the village priest who know she not suit to the life of a poor fisherman bride and but tell her that for the sake of love she must repress her true feeling of revulsion and and accept the poverty and despair she encounter each day . on top of all of this and there this volcano always on the brink of erupt and drown them all in hot lava . but like a true heroine and bergman revolt against her misery by declare war on just about everyone else in this dreary film . she even go as far a try to seduce the village priest and in a scene that would generate laughter if it be not so pathetic . since her poor slob of a husband must lock her in a room to keep her from run away and she force to use her body to bribe a married man to take her off the island . to her and no sacrifice be too great while no man unapproachable if he be willing to help her to escape the island and her misery . i would not bother to tell you how this all end . the no script movie end be as plausible a the rest of stromboli . i even remember ( from see it on late night tv ) that it have two different ending . so be warn if you should feel brave enough to sit through this king size turkey and catch the miscast bergman . it lead to her downfall in hollywood for the next seven year and she be condemn for sleep with her director while still marry to peter lindstrom . none of the movie she make with this director ( whom she later marry ) be noteworthy except a proof of a career go berserk . i kid you not . it pretty embarrass . soundtrack .