The Victors
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Carl Foreman
Vincent Edwards
Albert Finney
George Hamilton
Melina Mercouri
Jeanne Moreau
Film Details
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Synopsis
Corporals Trower and Chase, Sergeant Craig, and other members of an American infantry squad in England are shipped to combat assignment in Italy following their training in Britain. After taking possession of a small town, Baker, one of the G.I.'s, finds a few hours of happiness with Maria, a young mother who has not heard from her soldier husband in many months. Later, the group arrives in France after the D-Day landing, where Craig spends the evening with a Frenchwoman terrified by the continuous bombing. Chase is tempted by the wealthy Magda to desert and join her in the enormously profitable black market; instead, he rejoins his outfit and suffers a leg wound in action. In Belgium, Trower falls in love with Regine, an opportunistic nightclub violinist, but she throws him over for a pimp. Throughout their ordeal, the men are subjected to strain beyond that brought on by combat or romantic entanglements: white Southerners in the outfit harass the black soldiers; battle-hardened G.I.'s shoot a puppy for sport; and Trower and Chase befriend an 11-year-old French boy, only to discover that he is baiting them for homosexual relations. By the war's end, Craig is in the hospital with half his face shot away, Chase still has his leg wound, and Trower is living in the Russian zone of Berlin with Helga, a young blonde whose sister continually boasts of luxuries provided her by a Russian captain. After a disillusioning evening with Helga, Trower gets involved in a pointless squabble with a drunken Russian soldier; unable to understand each other, the two men pull knives and stab each other to death.
Director
Carl Foreman
Cast
Vincent Edwards
Albert Finney
George Hamilton
Melina Mercouri
Jeanne Moreau
George Peppard
Maurice Ronet
Rosanna Schiaffino
Romy Schneider
Elke Sommer
Eli Wallach
Michael Callan
Peter Fonda
Jim Mitchum
Senta Berger
Joel Flateau
Albert Lieven
Mervyn Johns
Tutte Lemkow
Peter Vaughan
George Roubicek
George Mikell
Alf Kjellin
Alan Barnes
John Rogers
Marianne Deeming
Patrick Jordan
Elizabeth Ercy
Milo Sperber
Malya Nappi
Vanda Godsell
Bee Duffell
James Chase
Riggs O'hara
Charles De Temple
Al Waxman
Tom Busby
Robert Nichols
Graydon Gould
Larry Caringi
Ian Hughes
Anthony Mcbride
Colin Maitland
Tony Wallace
John Crawford
Russ Titus
Sean Kelly
Mickey Knox
Peter Arne
Veite Bethke
Crew
Buster Ambler
Associates Of Hollywood
Sidney G. Barnsby
Saul Bass
Leon Becker
Ralph Blane
Gordon Bond
Harold Buck
Christopher Challis
Joan Davis
Don Deacon
Austin Dempster
Freddy Douglass
Geoffrey Drake
Eric Estorick
Elsa Fennell
Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman
Maurice Fowler
Ernest Gasser
Gerry Goffin
Barry Gray
Howard Greenfield
Miriam Hart
Geoffrey Helman
Bob Jones
Sol Kaplan
Sol Kaplan
Jack Keller
Olga Lehmann
Hugh Martin
Joan Morduch
National Screen Service Ltd.
Alan Osbiston
Eric Rattray
Cliff Richardson
Nils, (capt.) Runelundquist
Winston Ryder
Wally Schneiderman
Wally Stott
Wally Veevers
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Filmed in Italy, France, England, and Sweden. Opened in London in November 1963. The film acknowledges the cooperation of the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1963
Released in United States 1963
