The Greatest Battle
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
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| Story by | Umberto Lenzi |
| Produced by | Mino Loy Umberto Lenzi Luciano Martino |
| Starring | Helmut Berger Samantha Eggar Giuliano Gemma John Huston Stacy Keach Ray Lovelock Edwige Fenech Henry Fonda |
| Cinematography | Federico Zanni |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Music by | Franco Micalizzi |
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| Distributed by | Titanus (Italy) Constantin Film (West Germany) |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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The Greatest Battle (Italian: Il grande attacco, lit. 'The Great Attack', also released as The Biggest Battle and Battle Force) is a 1978 Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an all-star ensemble cast, including Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Ida Galli and John Huston. The Italian-West German-Yugoslavian co-production was produced by Mino Loy and Luciano Martino for Titanus.
The plot centers on a group of German and Allied nationals throughout the early years of World War II, including British commando Captain Martin Scott (Gemma), American General Harold Foster (Fonda) and his son John (Lovelock), Jewish actress Annelise Ackermann (Eggar), war correspondent Sean O'Hara (Huston) and two very different German lieutenants, Kurt Zimmer and Manfred Roland (Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia.