Anzio

Retelling of the Allied invasion of Anzio., Big-budget depiction of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II. A cynical reporter accompanies US Army Rangers as they prepare an amphibious assault at Anzio. The landing is unopposed by enemy forces, but an excess of caution on the part of Allied commanders enables the Germans to launch a devastating counterattack., A group of Allied soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines at Anzio during World War II. Ennis (Robert Mitchum) is the worldy journalist who rankles the troops his is assigned to cover. Ennis and seven soldiers come under fire and struggle to survive during the frenzied fighting that depletes the group. Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman and Arthur Kennedy also star in this war drama where the principle charactors are the target of an enemy sniper., The story of one of WWIIs bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead., Part requiem, part enquiry, all action, this scathing World War II epic is set during the costly 1944 Allied invasion of Italy. As the generals dither, reporter Robert Mitchum finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with Generals Peter Falk and Reni Santoni., World War II drama starring Robert Mitchum as an American reporter who witnesses the Allied invasion of Italy in 1944., After the Allied landing at Anzio in WWII, a war correspondent and an American squad get trapped behind enemy lines and are forced to fight their way back to safety., Drama telling the story of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, as the Allies fight through the German lines around the Anzio beachhead.