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    Victors, The (1963)

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    This three-hour film follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American soldiers from the early days of the Battle of Britain through the fierce fighting in Italy and France to the uneasy peace in the divided city of Berlin.

    The key players are Trower (George Hamilton) and Chase (George Peppard), and against a vast tapestry of mankind at war, the camera moves with them as they make squalid progress from skirmishes to battles, each finding (briefly) a girlfriend as they cross Europe on foot.

    Chase becomes involved with Magda (Melina Mercouri), a black market queen, and Trower with a Belgian nightclub violinist (Romy Schneider).

    The film is packed with incident and scepticism: Joe Craig (Eli Wallach), the tough NCO, ends up in hospital with half a face; the soldiers use a stray dog – adopted by one soft-hearted GI – as the target in a marksmanship contest; a group of Southern GIs beat up their black comrades in what they call “a coon hunt”, and we see an American deserter executed to the accompaniment of Frank Sinatra singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

    Actual newsreel footage punctuates the film for added impact.

    Right-wing critics in the US objected to The Victors rejection of the customary, cosy portrayal of US troops as brave and knightly crusaders who always resisted temptation and corruption and were ever-equipped with a Bob Hope quip for any emergency and were congenitally benign to children, animals and old ladies.

    Cpl. Theodore Trower
    George Hamilton
    Cpl. Frank Chase
    George Peppard
    Pvt. George Baker
    Vince Edwards
    Magda
    Melina Mercouri
    Maria
    Rosanna Schiaffino
    Regine
    Romy Schneider
    Helga Metzger
    Elke Sommer
    Sgt. Joe Craig
    Eli Wallach
    Eldridge
    Michael Callan
    Weaver
    Peter Fonda
    Pvt. Robert Grogan
    James Mitchum
    Trudi Metzger
    Senta Berger
    Herr Metzger
    Albert Lieven
    Frau Metzger
    Marianne Deeming
    Dennis
    Mervyn Johns
    Sikh Soldier
    Tutte Lemkow
    Tom
    Alan Barnes
    Russian Soldier
    Albert Finney
    French Woman
    Jeanne Moreau
    French Lieutenant
    Maurice Ronet

    Director
    Carl Foreman

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