Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
When in Rome (1952)
Film of the Week

When in Rome (1952)

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As long as you’ve got breath in you, you can do what the oddball hero of Film of the Week does: you can turn your life around — turn, our Word of the Week. But I wouldn’t recommend relying on your own strength of will. “When in Rome,” the saying goes, “do as the Romans do.” Well, that’s what we’ve got in this week’s warmhearted and lightly comic drama…

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