Popularity: 1 (history)
Director: | Giorgio Ferroni |
---|---|
Writer: | Ernesto Gastaldi, Remigio Del Grosso |
Staring: |
June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first! | |
Release Date: | Jan 01, 1969 |
---|---|
Director: | Giorgio Ferroni |
Writer: | Ernesto Gastaldi, Remigio Del Grosso |
Genres: | Action, War |
Keywords | tank, north africa |
Production Companies | Les Films Corona, Zenith Cinematografica |
Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
Name | Character |
---|---|
Frederick Stafford | Giorgio Borri |
Enrico Maria Salerno | Claudio Borri |
George Hilton | Lieutenant Graham |
Robert Hossein | Erwin Rommel |
Michael Rennie | Bernard Law Montgomery |
Giuseppe Castellano | |
Sal Borgese | Private Kapow |
Nello Pazzafini | Italian Sergeant |
Riccardo Pizzuti | Private Jailbird |
Gérard Herter | General Schwartz |
Ettore Manni | Italian Captain |
Giuseppe Addobbati | Georg Stumme |
Tom Felleghy | Ritter von Thoma |
Andrea Fantasia | Rommel's Doctor |
Ira von Fürstenberg | Marta |
Renato Romano | General Clifton |
Edoardo Toniolo | Major Baker |
Luciano Catenacci | Sergeant O'Hara |
Massimo Righi | Italian Soldier |
Name | Job |
---|---|
Carlo Rustichelli | Original Music Composer |
Florian Trenker | Second Unit Director of Photography |
Giorgio Ferroni | Director, Creator |
Ernesto Gastaldi | Story, Screenplay |
Remigio Del Grosso | Screenplay |
Sergio D'Offizi | Director of Photography |
Eugenio Alabiso | Editor |
Amedeo Moriani | Assistant Editor |
Giuseppe Ferranti | Makeup Artist |
Marisa Marconi | Makeup Artist |
Roberto Pariante | Assistant Director |
Fernando Popoli | Assistant Director |
Italo Cameracanna | Foley Editor, Sound Effects Editor |
Renato Marinelli | Sound Effects |
Bruno Zanoli | Sound Engineer |
Raffaele Del Monte | Sound Engineer |
Elio Micheli | Costume Design |
Vittorio Giacchero | Technical Supervisor |
Maria Luisa Rosen | Script Supervisor |
Giuseppe Gatti | Camera Operator |
Francesco Brescini | Electrician |
Enrico Lucidi | First Assistant Camera |
Name | Title |
---|---|
Sergio Martino | Executive Producer |
Luciano Martino | Producer |
Mino Loy | Producer |
Organization | Category | Person |
---|
Popularity History
Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
---|---|---|---|---|
2024 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
2024 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 3 |
2024 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
2024 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 4 |
2024 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 3 |
2024 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 3 |
2024 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
2024 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
2024 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
2025 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
2025 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
2025 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Trending Position
This could have been interesting, because it takes the perspective of the Italian troops charged by Mussolini with the capture of Alexandria in the 1942 North African campaign. It has a stab at drafting in an internationally recognised cast - Michael Rennie is Field Marshal Montgomery, and Robert Ho ... ssein features sparingly as Rommel, but for the most part this consists of a mediocre cast that I found made it quite difficult to distinguish between who was who, and on whose side! The dubbing didn't help, either, with the accents all but indistinguishable from each other and the quality of the production offered us visuals that are frequently just as confusing. There are plenty of pyrotechnics, and some quite well staged battles - especially with the foxholes and tanks towards the end, but the narrative is weak suggesting a disorganised and haphazard strategy from the Axis powers that did nobody any justice, historically. Sure, it doesn't help either that we all know what actually happened but I felt this could, with a bit more focus from the writing (and some quality talent in the dubbing suite), have offered us an interesting counter-balance to the accepted cinematic versions from this exciting and perilous theatre of WWII.