USA,
1963, 175 min
Shown in 1963
CREDITS
- dir
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Carl Foreman
- prod
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Carl Foreman
- scr
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Carl Foreman
- cam
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Christopher Challis
- editor
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Alan Osbiston
- mus
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Sol Kaplan, Jack Keller
- cast
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George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vincent Edwards, Rosanna Schiaffino, Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider
- prod co
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Columbia Pictures Corporation; Open Road
- premiere
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World Premiere
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COMMENTS
Opening Night film 1963. Carl Foreman, George Peppard, George Hamilton in person.
OTHER
The world premiere of Carl Foreman’s The Victors represents the first Foreman film since Guns of Navarone. A Columbia release, The Victors also represents the first time that Foreman has functioned as screenplay writer, director and producer on the same film. A story of conquering soldiers whose views are altered as they fight their way from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through Italy and France and finally to Berlin, the picture traces the experiences of a group of young Americans not only in actual combat but also in their relationships with the women they encounter along the way. Not a war story in the conventional sense, the usual violence of war films is not to be seen in The Victors. Foreman says his film “is a story of people and places, not of guns and bombs.” Sometimes shocking and brutal, the film also stresses tenderness and understanding among strangers whose paths cross under unusual circumstances. The international cast includes: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vincent Edwards, Rossana Schiaffino, James Mitchum, Tutte Lemkow, Maurice Ronet, Joel Flateau, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Michael Callan, Peter Fonda, Melina Mercouri, Mervyn Johns, Senta Berger, Elke Sommer and Albert Finney. More than a year in the making, The Victors will next be seen after its San Francisco debut by the Queen of England and an audience at a command performance.
FACTOID #343
Director Sally Potter was the first person to be honored with the Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. In 1993 she was interviewed onstage and her new film Orlando was screened. In 2005, she turned the tables by interviewing Peter J. Owens Award recipient Joan Allen.
