DVD: Also known as ‘Italiano Brava Gente,’ this 1965 film starring Peter Falk (‘Anzio,’ ‘Castle Keep’) and Arthur Kennedy (‘Air Force,’ ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) is an explosive chronicle of the Italian-Russian front during WW2. The story follows an Italian squad through the battle for Stalingrad and their terrible defeat and retreat, through the disastrous winter that followed. This defeat, more than anything else in the war, meant the end of the Third Reich and the Italian fascist regime. Print is not the best as this is a ?lost? film. Cannot even find a subtitled version. Believe originals were destroyed.
I.M.A carries much of the equipment seen in this film: not the film’s props, but the actual equipment used by the soldiers depicted in the film!