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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1968 film by Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti}}<br />
{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Anzio<br />
| image = Anzio 1968.jpg<br />
| caption = US cinema poster by [[Frank McCarthy (artist)|Frank McCarthy]]<br />
| director = [[Edward Dmytryk]]<br>[[Duilio Coletti]]<br />
| producer = [[Dino De Laurentiis]]<br />
| screenplay = HAL Craig<br />
| writer = ''adaptation'':<br>[[Frank De Felitta]]<br>[[Duilio Coletti]]<br>Giuseppe Mangione<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''Anzio''<br>1961 novel|[[Wynford Vaughan-Thomas]]}}<br />
| starring = [[Robert Mitchum]]<br>[[Peter Falk]]<br>[[Earl Holliman]]<br>[[Mark Damon]]<br>[[Reni Santoni]]<br>[[Thomas Hunter (actor)|Thomas Hunter]]<br>[[Anthony Steel (actor)|Anthony Steel]]<br>[[Wade Preston]]<br>[[Arthur Kennedy (actor)|Arthur Kennedy]]<br>[[Robert Ryan]]<br />
| music = [[Riz Ortolani]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Giuseppe Rotunno]]<br />
| editing = [[Peter Taylor (film editor)|Peter Taylor]]<br />
| studio = [[Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica]]<br />
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1968|07|24|US}}<br />
| runtime = 118 minutes<br />
| country = Italy, United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross = $1,400,000 (US, Canada)<ref>{{Citation | title = Big Rental Films of 1968 | newspaper = Variety | date = 8 January 1969 | page = 15}}. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.</ref><br />
}}<br />
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'''''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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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In the English-language version, Italians speak their native language. German military commanders speak English.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
After meeting a general, war correspondent Dick Ennis is assigned to accompany [[US Army Rangers]] for the upcoming attempt to outflank the tough enemy defenses. The [[amphibious landing]] is unopposed, but the bumbling American general, Jack Lesley, is too cautious, preferring to fortify his [[beachhead]] before advancing inland. Ennis and a Ranger drive in a [[jeep]] through the countryside, discovering there are few Germans between the beachhead and Rome, but his information is ignored. As a result, the German commander, Kesselring, has time to gather his forces and launch an effective counterattack.<br />
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Ennis is with the Rangers who are ambushed at the [[Battle of Cisterna]]. From there, the film departs from being a view of all sides and levels of the campaign to a story of a handful of survivors making their way back through enemy lines. The men take shelter in a house occupied by three Italian women. A German patrol arrives at the house, only to be slaughtered by the Americans. Ennis asks what makes one human being willingly kill another. Corporal Jack Rabinoff replies that he loves it, and his lifestyle makes him live more than anyone else.<br />
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Having almost reached friendly lines, most of the men, including Rabinoff, are killed in a shootout with a group of German snipers. It is during this shootout that Ennis is finally forced to kill one of the Germans with Rabinoff's gun. Only Ennis, Technical Sergeant Stimmler and Private Movie make it back and deliver intelligence about the Germans' new [[Caesar C line|defense line]]. The film ends with Ennis publicly questioning the competence of the Allied commanders and man's willingness to kill each other.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
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* [[Robert Mitchum]] as Dick Ennis, war correspondent<br />
* [[Peter Falk]] as Corporal Jack Rabinoff<br />
* [[Robert Ryan]] as Lieutenant General Carson<br />
* [[Earl Holliman]] as Technical Sergeant Abe Stimmler<br />
* [[Mark Damon]] as Private Wally Richardson<br />
* [[Arthur Kennedy (actor)|Arthur Kennedy]] as Major General Jack Lesley<br />
* [[Wolfgang Preiss]] as [[Generalfeldmarschall]] [[Albert Kesselring]]<br />
* [[Reni Santoni]] as Private Movie<br />
* Joseph Walsh as Private Doyle<br />
* [[Thomas Hunter (actor)|Thomas Hunter]] as Private Andy<br />
* [[Giancarlo Giannini]] as Private Cellini<br />
* [[Wayde Preston]] as Colonel Hendricks<br />
* [[Arthur Franz]] as Major General Luke Howard<br />
* [[Anthony Steel (actor)|Anthony Steel]] as Major-General Marsh<br />
* [[Patrick Magee (actor)|Patrick Magee]] as Major-General Starkey<br />
*[[Venantino Venantini]] as Captain Burns<br />
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==Response==<br />
The film opened to mixed reviews in the US; many felt it did not work as well as Dmytryk's early war films. ''[[The New York Times]]'' film review was generally dismissive, and describes the film as "a very ordinary war movie with an epic title, produced by [[Dino De Laurentiis]], the Italian producer... who thinks big but often produces small".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E07E0DA1330E034BC4D51DFB1668383679EDE | title =Anzio (1968) Standard War Fare |author-link = Vincent Canby | first = Vincent | last = Canby | work = The New York Times |date=July 25, 1968}}</ref> In contrast, ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' critic [[Roger Ebert]] had a more favourable opinion of the film, described it as "a good war movie and even an intelligent one".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680627/REVIEWS/806270301/1023 |title = Anzio | author-link = Roger Ebert | first = Roger | last = Ebert | work = Sun Times |date=June 27, 1968}}</ref><br />
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==Production==<br />
[[Riz Ortolani]] scored the film with a ballad called ''The World is Yours'' with lyrics by [[Doc Pomus]] that was sung beneath the credits by [[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]]. [[Luigi Scaccianoce]] was the [[production designer]].<br />
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Peter Falk thought that the script he read was clichéd and wanted off the film. At the last minute, Dino De Laurentiis put Falk's name above the title billing and gave him his choice of writer for his character's dialogue. Falk stayed and wrote his lines himself.<ref>{{Citation | last = Falk | first = Peter | title = Just One Thing: Stories of My Life | year = 2006 | publisher = DaCapo Press}}.</ref> The production saw De Laurentiis bring in for the first time another actor who made a debut, [[Giancarlo Giannini]], who would later do international films and would work with director [[Lina Wertmüller]].<br />
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Rabinoff is based on a real [[1st Special Service Force]] soldier, Sgt John L. "Jake" Walkmeister, who ran an illegal brothel of Italian prostitutes in a stolen ambulance.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Adelman | first1 = Robert H | last2 = Walton | first2 = George H | title = "The Devil's Brigade" revised | publisher = United States Naval Institute Press | year = 2022}}.</ref> Walkmeister was killed by shrapnel at [[Battle of Port Cros|Port Cros]] during [[Operation Dragoon]], the invasion of southern France.<ref>{{Citation | last = Tomblin | first = Barbara Brooks | page = 397 | title = With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean 1942–1945 | year = 2004 | publisher = University Press of Kentucky}}.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of American films of 1968]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title | id=0062673 | title=Anzio}}<br />
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|anzio}}<br />
* {{tcmdb title|id=25183|title=Anzio}}<br />
* {{amg movie|2653}}<br />
* {{AFI film|id=22857|title=Anzio}}<br />
* {{Citation | type = trailer | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtlxUC1k9A | title = You tube }}.<br />
* {{Citation | contribution = Thomas Hunter on Anzio | type = interview | url = http://wconnolly.blogspot.com/2009/05/thomas-hunter-on-anzio.html | first = W | last = Connolly | title = Blogger |date=May 2022}}.<br />
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