The Greatest Battle

The Greatest Battle

Directed by	Umberto Lenzi
Starring	Henry Fonda John Huston Stacy Keach Samantha Eggar
Music by	Franco Micalizzi
Cinematography	Federico Zanni
Distributed by	Dimension Pictures
Release dates	7 February 1978

The Greatest Battle (Italian title Il grande attacco "The great attack"), also known as Battle Force and The Biggest Battle, is a 1978 Italian Macaroni war movie.

Cast

Helmut Berger: Lt. Kurt Zimmer
Samantha Eggar: Annelise Hackermann
Giuliano Gemma: Captain Malcolm Scott
Henry Fonda: General Foster
John Huston: Professor O'Hara
Stacy Keach: Lt. Manfred Roland
Ray Lovelock: John Foster
Aldo Massasso: Jean, the reporter
Guy Doleman: General Whitmore
Venantino Venantini: Michael
Ida Galli: Miss Scott
Edwige Fenech: Danielle
Andrea Bosic: Mimis Parnat
Mirko Ellis: Captain Hans
Orson Welles: Narrator (Voice)

Reception

Despite the great cast the movie generally received poor reviews. For Mick Martin and Marsha Porter it shows "lots of phony battle scenes, bad acting, and a poor script".^[1] Leonard Maltin writes: "Amateurish muddle about WW2 combines tired vignettes with well-known stars, dubbed sequences with others, and newsreel footage narrated by Orson Welles. A waste of everybody's time".^[2]

References

↑ Mick Martin, Marsha Porter. DVD & video guide 2005. Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 0-345-44995-9.
↑ Leonard Maltin. Leonard Maltin's TV movies and video guide. Plume, 2003. ISBN 0-452-28478-3.

External links

The Greatest Battle at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Umberto Lenzi

Duel of Fire (1962)
Catherine of Russia (1963)
Sandokan the Great (1963)
Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)
Jungle Adventurer (1964)
Pirates of Malaysia (1964)
Super Seven Calling Cairo (1965)
008: Operation Exterminate (1965)
The Spy Who Loved Flowers (1966)
Kriminal (1966)
Attentato ai tre grandi (1967)
So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Orgasmo (1969)
Paranoia (1970)
Oasis of Fear (1971)
Il coltello di ghiaccio (1972)
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Man from the Deep River (1972)
Gang War in Milan (1973)
Almost Human (1974)
Spasmo (1974)
Eyeball (1974)
Syndicate Sadists (1975)
Manhunt in the City (1975)
Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976)
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
Napoli violenta (1976)
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
The Greatest Battle (1978)
Brothers Till We Die (1978)
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
From Hell to Victory (1979)
Nightmare City (1980)
Eaten Alive! (1980)
Cannibal Ferox (1981)
Nightmare Beach (1988)
Ghosthouse (1988)
Dèmoni 3 (1991)

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