The Victors
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George Hamilton (actor)...in 1960 as Most Promising Newcomer (Male). He went on to a starring role along with George Peppard as a soldier in 1963's The Victors, a World War II story, and as a Confederate captain who kidnaps the wife of a Union officer (Glenn... In this article: Bob Barker, Count Dracula, My One and Only, Zorro, Your Cheatin' Heart, Golden Globe Award, Ashley Hamilton, and Warren Beatty |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Eddie Slovik
...Slovik. In addition, Eisenhower's execution orders and Slovik's death by firing squad are included in a scene in the 1963 film ''The Victors ''. Kurt Vonnegut mentions Slovik's execution in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut also...
In this article: Eddie Slovik, Frank Sinatra, United States Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II, and France
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
The Victors (film)
The Victors is a 1963 film by Carl Foreman following a group of U.S. soldiers through Europe during World War II, from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin.
In this article: World War II, Dr. Strangelove, Peter Fonda, Berlin, Christmas music, Battle of Britain, Battle of Berlin, Alexander Baron, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | October 21, 2009
Lives Remembered
...in Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), about the production of a swords-and-sandals film in Rome; the movie attracted mixed reviews. The Victors (1963), a war film shot in London with George Peppard and Romy Schneider, fared better, and she...
In this article: Two Weeks in Another Town, Manchester United, London, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Warwick Medical School, Surgery, Cancer, Yvonne Carter, and Football League
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Wikipedia | September 14, 2009
The Execution of Private Slovik
...concerned and ultimately prevailed upon Sinatra to cancel the project. Slovik's execution is featured in a scene in the 1963 film ''The Victors '', coincidentally accompanied by a Sinatra Christmas recording. In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel...
In this article: The Execution of Private Slovik, Frank Sinatra, Emmy Award, William Bradford Huie, John F. Kennedy, Martin Sheen, American Civil War, and Roman Catholic
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New Yorker: The Talk of the Town | September 06, 2009
Tad Friend: George Hamilton and My One and Only.
...the Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli had provided him with a bespoke wardrobe-which reminded him that while he was in Rome filming "The Victors," in 1963, he'd arranged to meet the world's most beautiful woman, the actress Jocelyn Lane, in front...
In this article: George Hamilton, Gianni Agnelli, Merv Griffin, Jocelyn Lane, St. Louis, Bespoke, God, and P. J. Clarke's
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The Victors is a 1963 film by Carl Foreman following a group of U.S. soldiers through Europe during World War II, from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin. It is adapted from a collection of short stories called The Human Kind by British author Alexander Baron, based upon his own wartime experiences. In the film the British characters of the original book were changed into Americans in order to attract American audiences.
Atypically of Hollywood interpretations of World War II at the time, the depiction of American GIs shows soldiers worn out by battle and weary of conflict. Hostility towards their newly liberated hosts on the part of Germans depicted in the film is obvious and surprising given the era in which it was made. The film slips between Pathé style newsreel footage showing the conquering heroes abroad for the audience at home, and the grim reality of post conflict ennui.
The film consisted of short vignettes, each having a beginning and an ending in itself, though all connected to the others, as a series of short stories adding up to a longer one.
The cinematic highpoint is a bizarre and long sequence depicting the execution by firing squad of a GI deserter in a huge, otherwise empty, snow covered field, conducted to the sound of Frank Sinatra singing 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', followed by an uplifting chorus of 'Hark the herald angels sing,' after the fatal shots are fired. This scene is remarkable for its stark, visually extreme imagery.
This scene may be based on the actual execution of Eddie Slovik by the US Army in France in early 1945. He was the only soldier executed for desertion by the Americans in the second war. His sentence was approved by Dwight Eisenhower himself, presumably to act as an example.
- Name:
- The Victors
- Release Date:
- January 01, 1963
- Directed By:
- Carl Foreman
- Produced by:
- Carl Foreman
- Written By:
- Carl Foreman
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Christopher Challis
- Distributed By:
- Columbia Pictures
- Length:
- 175min
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