Anzio (film)

Anzio
US cinema poster by Frank McCarthy
Directed byEdward Dmytryk
Duilio Coletti
Written byadaptation:
Frank De Felitta
Duilio Coletti
Giuseppe Mangione
Screenplay byHAL Craig
Based onAnzio
1961 novel
by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Produced byDino De Laurentiis
StarringRobert Mitchum
Peter Falk
Earl Holliman
Mark Damon
Reni Santoni
Thomas Hunter
Anthony Steel
Wade Preston
Arthur Kennedy
Robert Ryan
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byPeter Taylor
Music byRiz Ortolani
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 24, 1968 (1968-07-24) (US)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesItaly, United States
LanguageEnglish & Italian
Box office$1,400,000 (US, Canada)[1]

Anzio (Italian: Lo sbarco di Anzio), also known as The Battle for Anzio (UK title), is a 1968 Technicolor war film in Panavision, an Italian and American co-production, about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II. It was adapted from the book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle.

The film stars Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and a variety of international film stars, who mostly portray fictitious characters based on actual participants in the battle. The two exceptions were Wolfgang Preiss and Tonio Selwart, who respectively played Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and General Eberhard von Mackensen. The film was made in Italy with an Italian film crew and produced by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis; however, none of the main cast were Italian, nor were there any major Italian characters. The film was jointly directed by Edward Dmytryk and Duilio Coletti.

In the English-language version, Italians speak their native language. German military commanders speak English.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, p. 15, 8 January 1969. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.