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{{Infobox film<br />
|name = Tunisian Victory<br />
|caption =<br />
|image = Tunisian Victory FilmPoster.jpeg<br />
|directors = [[Frank Capra]]<br>[[Hugh Stewart (film editor)|Hugh Stewart]]<br>[[Roy Boulting]]<br>[[John Huston]]<br>[[Anthony Veiller]]<br />
|producer =<br />
|writer =<br />
|starring = [[Leo Genn]] (narrator)<br>[[Burgess Meredith]]<br>[[Bernard Miles]]<br />
|music = [[William Alwyn]]<br>[[Dimitri Tiomkin]]<br />
|cinematography =<br />
|editing =[[Frank Clarke (editor)|Frank Clarke]]<br />
|distributor =[[Butcher's Film Service|Butchers Film Distributors]] (UK)<br>[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] (US)<br />
|released = {{Film date|1944|03|16}}<br />
|runtime = 75 minutes<br />
|budget =<br />
|country = United Kingdom<br>United States<br />
|language = English<br />
}}<br />
'''''Tunisian Victory''''' is a 1944 [[United Kingdom|Anglo]]-[[United States|American]] propaganda film about the victories in the [[North Africa Campaign]].<br />
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The film follows both armies from the planning of [[Operation Torch]] and [[Operation Acrobat]] (the latter of which was canceled), to the liberation of [[Tunis]]. Interspersed in the documentary format are the narrative voices of supposed American and British soldiers (voiced by [[Burgess Meredith]] and [[Bernard Miles]] respectively), recounting their experience in the campaign. Miles and Meredith, playing the roles of soldiers, talk separately until the end of the film when they have a dialogue, agree to co-operate after the end of the war, and with the other Allied nations create a more just and peaceful post-war order.<br />
[[File:Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Colonel [[Frank Capra]] (right) confers with Captain [[Boulting Brothers|Roy Boulting]] of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film in February 1944.]]<br />
[[File:Tunisian Victory.webm|thumb|upright=1.2|thumbtime=0:18|''[[:File:Tunisian Victory.webm|Tunisian Victory]]'' (complete film)]]<br />
The film was intended as a follow-up to the successful British documentary film ''[[Desert Victory]]'' (1943). Frederic Krome's article "Tunisian Victory" and Anglo-American Film Propaganda in World War II from ''The Historian'' details the acrimony between the British and US film makers on the project. Most of the actual American combat footage taken during Operation Torch was destroyed when the ship carrying it was sunk, requiring many "battle scenes" to be reshot in the U.S. by director [[John Huston]]. Huston restaged several battles and liberations to achieve high quality footage, even going so far as to film some air battle scenes (in the [[Mohave Desert]]) and in [[Orlando, Florida]]. The British recognized the dubious nature of the film, though they themselves were guilty of the same recreations in wartime propaganda films.<ref>[[Turner Classic Movies]] interview with [[Mark Harris (journalist)|Mark Harris]], September 2, 2015, 1:45 a.m. EST</ref><br />
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The direction of the final version involved no less than five individuals: [[Frank Capra]], [[John Huston]], [[Anthony Veiller]], [[Hugh Stewart (film editor)|Hugh Stewart]] and [[Roy Boulting]].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Allied propaganda films of World War II]]<br />
*''[[The True Glory]]'' (1945)<br />
* [[Army Film and Photographic Unit]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{YouTube|id=KqOxpOAzgYg|title=''Tunisian Victory''}}<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0037404|title=Tunisian Victory}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive film|id=TunisianVictory1944|name=Tunisian Victory}}<br />
* "''Tunisian Victory'' and Anglo-American Film Propaganda in World War II" http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18516915.html<br />
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