To Troy, September 4, 2001

I want to say something more about this film because it deserves more than I am saying right now. However, I just tonight heard the news about you. This film is a little away from the mold of A SUMMER PLACE, PARRISH and SUSAN SLADE also directed by Delmar Daves personally for you. Daves definitely saw something in you that the critics didn't. But there are a lot of us out there who also saw what director Daves saw. You represented that slightly shy, slightly naive brooding All-American youth that somehow outlived his usefulness on the screen many years ago. You had your day in the sun however short-lived that time was. Yet you brought many of us happiness and a hope for the future. You thrived at a time that was so fleeting that one wonders if it ever really existed. This film is the proof that those times did really once exist. ROME ADVENTURE's images hold perhaps your best performance. You held your ground convincingly in scenes with the virile Rossano Brazzi. You looked like the...