The Victors (film)

The Victors is a 1963 AngloAmerican war film written, produced and directed by Carl Foreman, whose name on the films posters was accompanied by nearby text, from the man who fired The Guns of Navarone. Shot on location in Western Europe and Britain, The Victors features an allstar cast, with fifteen American and European leading players, including six actresses Melina Mercouri from Greece, Jeanne Moreau from France, Rosanna Schiaffino from Italy, Romy Schneider and Senta Berger from Austria as well as Elke Sommer from West Germany whose photographs appear on the posters. One of the posters carries the tagline, The six most exciting women in the world in the most explosive entertainment ever made.

It is adapted from a collection of short stories called The Human Kind by English author Alexander Baron, based upon his own wartime experiences. In the film the British characters of the original book were changed into Americans in order to attract American audiences.Carl Foreman wrote, produced and directed the epic. He called it a personal statement about the futility of war. Both victor and vanquished are losers. ........

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