Tunisian Victory
Tunisian Victory | |
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Directed by |
Frank Capra Hugh Stewart Roy Boulting John Huston Anthony Veiller |
Starring |
Leo Genn (narrator) Burgess Meredith Bernard Miles |
Music by |
William Alwyn Dimitri Tiomkin |
Distributed by |
Butchers Film Distributors (UK) MGM (US) |
Release dates | March 16, 1944 |
Running time | 75 min |
Country |
United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Tunisian Victory (1944) is an Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign.
The film follows both armies from the planning of Operation Torch / Operation Acrobat to the liberation of Tunis. Interspersed in the pure documentary format are the narrative voices of supposed American and British soldiers (voiced by Burgess Meredith and Bernard Miles respectively), recounting their experience in the campaign. The British and American talk separately until the end of the film when they have a dialogue, agree to co-operate after the end of the war, with the other Allied nations to create a more just and peaceful post-war order.
The film was intended as a follow-up to the successful British documentary film Desert Victory (1943). Frederic Krome's article "Tunisian Victory" and Anglo-American Film Propaganda in World War II from The Historian details the acrimony between the British and US film makers on the project. Most of the actual American combat footage taken during Operation Torch was destroyed when the ship carrying it was sunk, requiring many "battle scenes" to be reshot in the U.S. by director John Huston. The direction of the final version involved no less than five individuals: Frank Capra, John Huston, Anthony Veiller, Hugh Stewart and Roy Boulting.
References
See also
- List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
- The True Glory (1945)
- Army Film and Photographic Unit
External links
- Tunisian Victory at the Internet Movie Database
- Tunisian Victory is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- "Tunisian Victory" and Anglo-American Film Propaganda in World War II http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18516915.html