Anzio | |
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![]() US cinema poster by Frank McCarthy | |
Directed by | Edward Dmytryk Duilio Coletti |
Written by | adaptation: Frank De Felitta Duilio Coletti Giuseppe Mangione |
Screenplay by | HAL Craig |
Based on | Anzio 1961 novel by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis |
Starring | Robert Mitchum Peter Falk Earl Holliman Mark Damon Reni Santoni Thomas Hunter Anthony Steel Wade Preston Arthur Kennedy Robert Ryan |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Edited by | Peter Taylor |
Music by | Riz Ortolani |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
Countries | Italy, United States |
Language | English & Italian |
Box office | $1,400,000 (US, Canada)[1] |
Anzio (Italian: Lo sbarco di Anzio), also known as The Battle for Anzio (UK title), is a 1968 Technicolor war film in Panavision, an Italian and American co-production, about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II. It was adapted from the book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle.
The film stars Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and a variety of international film stars, who mostly portray fictitious characters based on actual participants in the battle. The two exceptions were Wolfgang Preiss and Tonio Selwart, who respectively played Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and General Eberhard von Mackensen. The film was made in Italy with an Italian film crew and produced by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis; however, none of the main cast were Italian, nor were there any major Italian characters. The film was jointly directed by Edward Dmytryk and Duilio Coletti.
In the English-language version, Italians speak their native language. German military commanders speak English.
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