The Victors
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The Victors (film)...France, Italy and England. The film slips between Pathe style newsreel footage showing the conquering heroes abroad for the audience at home, and the grim reality of battlefield brutality and post conflict ennui. No battle scenes are... In this article: The Victors, 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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The Victors is a 1963 film by Carl Foreman following a group of U.S. soldiers ... The film slips between Pathé style newsreel footage showing the conquering ...
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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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