Indiscretion of an American Wife (Terminal Station) is a 1953 romantic drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, and Richard Beymer in his debut role. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian intellectual in Rome’s Stazione Termini, the main railway station of the city. The title refers to the station, where the film takes place. 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. However, the collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences between them that resulted in two different versions of the same film, an 89-minute Italian version and a 72-minute American recut under the alternate title Indiscretion of an American Wife. The experience was such that De Sica never worked with a Hollywood producer again, though he would make future English-language films with American actors.

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