There's a lot more going on here than all those bare-legged women working in the rice paddies, but that's enough to get started.
Sexy Silvana Mangano became internationally known after this peudo neorealist melodrama found an audience, thanks in part to her husband Dino Di Laurentiis's money, and the skimpy outfits he makes Giuseppe De Santis direct her in. Master cameraman Otello Martelli's sweeping shots of hundreds of women in rice paddy's is justly famed.