Anzio

Anzio

1968 · 117 min · IT · PG · 5.8 (52 votes)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti · Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Arthur Kennedy, Giancarlo Giannini, Earl Holliman · Music Riz Ortolani

...where all roads lead to Rome!

ActionDramaWarHistory

Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report on this absence of the enemy is discounted. By the time it is finally decided to make a move the Germans have arrived in strength and a prolonged ...

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A grim, ground-level view of WWII's brutal realities. It captures the suffocating tension of being trapped, the desperation of survival, and the heavy cost of strategic blunders on the front lines.

grittytensesomberdesperatesteadyclassic war filmrealistic combathistorical dramawarfutilitymiscalculationsurvival
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