ANZIO (aka: Sbarco di Anzio, Lo) (director: Edward Dmytryk;
screenwriters: from the book by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas/Duilio
Coletti/Harry A.L. Craig/Frank De Felitta; cinematographer:
Giuseppe Rotunno; editors: Alberto Gallitti/Peter Taylor; music:
Riz Ortolani; cast: Robert Mitchum (Dick Ennis), Peter Falk
(Cpl. Jack Rabinoff), Robert Ryan (General Carson), Earl
Holliman (Platoon Sgt. Abe Stimmler), Mark Damon (Wally
Richardson), Arthur Kennedy (Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley), Reni
Santoni (Pvt. Movie), Joseph Walsh (Doyle), Thomas Hunter (Pvt.
Andy), Arthur Franz (General Howard), Giancarlo Giannini
(Cellini), Patrick Magee (General Starkey), Wolfgang Preiss
(Field Marshal Albert Kesselring); Runtime: 117; MPAA Rating:
NR; producer: Dino De Laurentiis; Columbia-TriStar Home
Entertainment; 1968)  "... threadbare, run-of-the-mill war
drama."  Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz  Edward Dmytryk ("The Caine
Mutiny"/"Back to Bataan") offers lackluster direction to film
one of the bloodiest World War II battles fought in Anzio, It