Anzio (1968)
(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.
(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.