Anzio (film)
| 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 |
| Languages | Italian English |
| Box office | $1,400,000 (US, Canada) |
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.
The film stars Robert Mitchum and Peter Falk, alongside a range of international actors portraying mostly fictional characters inspired by real participants in the battle. Notable exceptions include Wolfgang Preiss as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and Tonio Selwart as General Eberhard von Mackensen. Although the production was based in Italy with an Italian crew and producer, none of the principal cast were Italian, and the film includes no major Italian characters. It was co-directed by Edward Dmytryk and Duilio Coletti.
In the English-language version, Italian characters speak in Italian, while German commanders are depicted speaking English.