Fatal Desire (film)

{{short description|1953 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Fatal Desire

| image = Cavalleria Rusticana Film Poster1953.jpg

| caption =

| director = Carmine Gallone

| producer =

| writer = {{plainlist|

• Art Cohn
• Francesco De Feo
• Basilio Franchina
• Carmine Gallone
• Guido Menasci (libretto)
• Mario Monicelli
• Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (libretto)
• Giovanni Verga

}}

| starring = {{ubl|May Britt|Anthony Quinn|Ettore Manni}}

| music = Pietro Mascagni

| cinematography = {{ubl|Riccardo Pallottini|Karl Struss}}

| editing = Rolando Benedetti

| distributor = {{ubl|Minerva Film (Italy)|Ultra Films Corp. (US)}}

| released = {{film date|1953|||Italy|1963|1|9|United States|df=y}}

| runtime =

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

}}

Fatal Desire ({{langx|it|Cavalleria rusticana}}) is a 3-D Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone.{{Cite web |title=Oeuvres {{!}} La Cinémathèque québécoise |url=http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/oeuvres/fiche/36044 |access-date=2022-04-29 |language=fr-FR}} The film is based on the opera Cavalleria rusticana and stars May Britt, Anthony Quinn, Ettore Manni, and Kerima. For the vocal parts Quinn was dubbed by Tito Gobbi.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin.