United Artists
Directed by Stanley Kramer
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Fox/MGM)
A small Italian town hides its stock of over a million bottles of wine before the occupying Germans arrive to steal it. Anthony Quinn is the town's mayor who organizes the effort required to move them to abandoned caves. Hardy Kruger is the German officer assigned to find them. They have a sometimes tense battle of wills. However, characters are not well developed and too often fall into Italian and German stereotypes. A romantic subplot involving Virna Lisi adds little to the film other than extending its already too-long running time.
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