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Anzio (1968)

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(The Battle for Anzio)


Country: IT
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy, Earl Holliman, Robert Ryan

Synopsis:

A war correspondent accompanies a unit during the unopposed landings and surprise enemy counter-attack at Anzio, trying to puzzle out why men fight wars.

Review:

Effective landing and sniper sequences evoking the uncanny emptiness of a war zone are not enough to save this diffuse picture from fizzling. There is many a rhetorical gesture and rueful observation, but dramatically not enough meat, and the production is a small scale affair compared with Battle of the Bulge, say.

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(The Battle for Anzio)


Country: IT
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy, Earl Holliman, Robert Ryan

Synopsis:

A war correspondent accompanies a unit during the unopposed landings and surprise enemy counter-attack at Anzio, trying to puzzle out why men fight wars.

Review:

Effective landing and sniper sequences evoking the uncanny emptiness of a war zone are not enough to save this diffuse picture from fizzling. There is many a rhetorical gesture and rueful observation, but dramatically not enough meat, and the production is a small scale affair compared with Battle of the Bulge, say.

(The Battle for Anzio)


Country: IT
Technical: col/scope 117m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy, Earl Holliman, Robert Ryan

Synopsis:

A war correspondent accompanies a unit during the unopposed landings and surprise enemy counter-attack at Anzio, trying to puzzle out why men fight wars.

Review:

Effective landing and sniper sequences evoking the uncanny emptiness of a war zone are not enough to save this diffuse picture from fizzling. There is many a rhetorical gesture and rueful observation, but dramatically not enough meat, and the production is a small scale affair compared with Battle of the Bulge, say.

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