The Victors

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Rob G I was 17 when I saw this film just before I went in to the Army. It had a great impact me. I am am 89 now. and it still resonates. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/04/24 Full Review ROBERT R I am 88 and saw it when it first came out Then I loved it, but now I can see it has faults. Even so, it still made me want to look at it again. A sad commentary on war, but the George Peppard sequences just don't ring true to life. And the end was put in for what? I thought the only realistic bits were the actors taking the roles of GI's doing their best to look like the real deal. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/29/23 Full Review Audience Member An unusual film: * Its a series of separate events (mini-stories?) that take place to a US Army team, starting from their engagement in Italy and following them as they cross Europe towards Germany for the close of the WW2. * The directing is excellent, the film in my opinion has not aged much at all. * Because of the format (the mini-stories) it is not a "normal" film, this affects engagement, it also ends abruptly. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie follows a group of American soldiers through different European battlefields in World War II: Italy, France, Belgium, Germany. It is composed of several short stories that share the same theme and characters, divided by sequences of actual newsreels from the war. This creates a very strong contrast between the stories served to the movie theater audiences at home in which the soldiers were portrayed as optimistic heroes and the dark reality: brutal conditions, exhaustion, depression, futility, sexual exploitation, the black market, war profiteers... It was made at the time when Second World War movies were still big-budget epics, with an atmosphere of heroism and optimism very similar to the wartime newsreels, and most of the action was limited to battle-scenes. In this film, the focus is on daily life, moreover there are no combat scenes, and short stories complement each other to create an atmosphere of pervasive emptiness and quiet desperation. A few weeks after its release the movie was briefly withdrawn to be modified, abridged and virtually censored. As far as I know, the original uncut version of the movie is still not available. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review ashley h The Victors is a decent film. It is about a squad of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy and Germany in the final days of World War II. Vince Edwards and Albert Finney give good performances. The screenplay is a little in slow in places. Carl Foreman did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Episodic, yet intelligently and strikingly shot. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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