I'm the last persons to ask about the travails of a refugee, so within that light, I'm impressed by the despair of no work pushing people into the trusting of the stranger, and the alliances taking shape within the group, alliances that had been neither available nor necessary before. Vallone's character is forthright, unassuming, a moral compass, the others gravitating to him for direction. Elena Varzi, in the role of a village outcast, delivers well as a growing point of contention between Vallone and Franco Navarra, her ne'er do well lover. I also found out that Varzi and Vallone married two years after the film's release, and till death did they part, when he passed away in 2002.
Well paced, dynamic, thoughtful. 
