Summary
Il Grande attacco is an Italian war film first released in 1978,
directed by Umberto Lenzi.
The film stars Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston and Stacy Keach.
It has also been released under the title: The Biggest Battle.
Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.
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Credits
- Director: Umberto Lenzi
- Script: Cesare Frugoni, Umberto Lenzi
- Photo: Federico Zanni
- Music: Franco Micalizzi
- Cast: Helmut Berger (Lt. Kurt Zimmer), Samantha Eggar (Annelise Ackermann), Giuliano Gemma (Captain Martin Scott), John Huston (Sean O’Hara), Stacy Keach (Major Mannfred Roland), Ray Lovelock (Lt. John Foster), Aldo Massasso (Lt. William McShane), Venantino Venantini (Michael), Ida Galli (Sybil Scott), Orson Welles (Narrator), Edwige Fenech (Danielle), Henry Fonda (General Foster), Aldo Barberito (SS major), Rik Battaglia (American commando), Andrea Bosic (Mimmo Parnat), Massimo Bonetti (German soldier), Rosario Borelli, Ermelinda De Felice, Emilio Delle Piane, Attilio Dottesio (French bartender), Giuseppe Castellano (American commando), Luciano Catenacci (British communications officer), Giovanni Cianfriglia (British commando), Pierangelo Civera (Gestapo agent), Claudio Colombi, Geoffrey Copleston (SS General Jürgens), Mirko Ellis (German officer in bar), Andrea Fantasia, Tom Felleghy (American general), Manfred Freyberger (German in Danielle’s room), Marco Guglielmi (British general), Fulvio Mingozzi (French partisan), Franco Odoardi (Wounded Resistance Man), Lorenzo Piani, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart (American commando), Lanfranco Spinola, Max Turilli (Gestapo agent), Bill Vanders (General von Arnim), Karl Braun (Machine-gun sergeant), Guy Doleman (General Whitmore), Riccardo Petrazzi (Partisan guard), Mario Piave (British soldier), Patrick Reynolds (O’Hara’s Aide), Michele Soavi (Ted Foster), Robert Spafford (General George S. Patton)
- Country: Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
- Language: English
- Runtime: 107 min
- Aka: The Biggest Battle; Battle Force; The Battle of the Mareth Line; The Great Battle; The Greatest Battle
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