--- title: 'Mambo (1954)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Rossen' released: '1954-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'Italy' - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mambo-1954' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047207/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Mambo (1954) 1954 · 110 min · Drama, Romance · Italy, United States ## Synopsis Mambo is an Italian/American psychological drama international co-production film, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti and Paramount Pictures written and directed from 1952 to 1953 by Robert Rossen and released in 1955. A mambo craze spread through the US in the 1950s, and Rossen aimed to repair his finances after almost two years without work since his 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. The film co-stars Silvana Mangano and Katherine Dunham who acted as the film's choreographer. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Rossen](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-rossen) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Rossen](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-rossen), [Ivo Perilli](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivo-perilli), [Guido Piovene](https://cinepixo.com/people/guido-piovene), [Ennio de Concini](https://cinepixo.com/people/ennio-de-concini) - **Producer:** [Dino De Laurentiis](https://cinepixo.com/people/dino-de-laurentiis), [Carlo Ponti](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-ponti) - **Director of Photography:** [Harold Rosson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-rosson) ## Cast - [Mary Clare](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-clare) - [Michael Rennie](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-rennie) - [Vittorio Gassman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-gassman) - [Katherine Dunham](https://cinepixo.com/people/katherine-dunham) - [Shelley Winters](https://cinepixo.com/people/shelley-winters) - [Silvana Mangano](https://cinepixo.com/people/silvana-mangano) - [Eduardo Ciannelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-ciannelli) - [Giovanna Galletti](https://cinepixo.com/people/giovanna-galletti) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/mambo-1954 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1080080); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.