Anzio
Anzio (Italian: Lo sbarco di Anzio), released in the United Kingdom as The Battle for Anzio, is a 1968 Technicolor war film in Panavision. An Italian–American co-production, it was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and depicts Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio during World War II. The screenplay was adapted from the book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had covered the battle as a BBC war correspondent.
Plot
After meeting American general Jack Lesley, 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 Lesley is cautious, preferring to fortify his beachhead before advancing inland. Ennis and a Ranger named Pvt. Movie drive in a jeep through the countryside, picking up a Black Devil named Corporal Jack Rabinoff along the way, and together, they discover there are few Germans between the beachhead and Rome, but this information is ignored. As a result, the German commander, Kesselring, is able to gather his forces and launch an effective counterattack.
Cast
- Anthony Steel
- Arthur Franz
- Arthur Kennedy
- Carmen Scarpitta
- Dante Maggio
- Earl Holliman
- Gene Evans
- Giancarlo Giannini
- Joseph Walsh
- Mark Damon
- Patrick Magee
- Peter Falk
- Reni Santoni
- Richard Arlen
- Robert Mitchum
- Robert Ryan
- Thomas Hunter
- Tiberio Mitri
- Tonio Selwart
- Venantino Venantini
- Wayde Preston
- Wolfgang Preiss
More details
| author | Frank De Felitta H.A.L. Craig |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Duilio Coletti Edward Dmytryk |
| editor | Peter Taylor |
| events | Battle of Anzio World War II |
| keywords | act ambush battle of cisterna break out build discover fifth army forced labour forced to kill human being injured kill land meet morning us army rangers war correspondent wound |
| musicBy | Riz Ortolani |
| producer | Dino De Laurentiis |
| productionCompany | Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| theme | epic war |