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The Victors (Original title)
Date: 1963 (Copyright)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: Carl Foreman

Synopsis: Traces the fortunes of a squad of soldiers from the Battle of Britain to V.E.Day. Based on the novel by Alexander Baron - "The Human Kind"

Genre:
War

Subjects:
World War II, American Army, Soldiers
Releases
Date: 1963Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - Sound - StereoRuntime: 175 mins Length: 15750 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (49)
Production Company: Highroad Productions, Production Company: Open Road Films, Presents/Released through: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Produced by: Carl Foreman, Associate Producer: Harold Buck, Unit Manager: Geoffrey Helman, Production Supervisor: Sidney G. Barnsby, Production Co-ordinator: Leon Becker, Production Secretary: Miriam Hart, Assistant Director: Eric Rattray, Continuity: Joan Davis, Casting: Barry Gray, Written for the Screen by: Carl Foreman, From the novel 'The Human Kind' by: Alexander Baron, Director of Photography: Christopher Challis, Camera Operator: Austin Dempster, Special Effects: Cliff Richardson, Special Effects: Wally Veevers, Film Editor: Alan Osbiston, Assistant Editor: Joan Morduch, Production Designer: Geoffrey Drake, Art Director: Maurice Fowler, Wardrobe Designer: Olga Lehmann, Wardrobe Supervisor: Elsa Fennell, Make-up: Ernest Gasser, Make-up: Wally Schneiderman, Hairdresser: Gordon Bond, Prologue and Title Design by: Saul Bass, Associates of Hollywood, [Titles] Art Consultant: Eric Estorick, Titles by: National Screen Service Ltd., Music Composed and Conducted by: Sol Kaplan, Songs: Sol Kaplan, Songs: Freddy Douglass, Songs: Howard Greenfield, Songs: Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin, Music Performed by: Sinfonia of London, Orchestrator: Wally Stott, Sound Recordist: Buster Ambler, Bob Jones, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Sound Editor: Winston Ryder, Dialogue Editor: Don Deacon, Technical Adviser: Capt. Nils Rune Lundqvist, Thanked in credits: Swedish Army Ordnance Corps, Dialogue Assistant: Mickey Knox, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast (49)
Vincent Edwards (Baker), Albert Finney (Russian soldier), George Hamilton (Trower), Melina Mercouri (Magda), Jeanne Moreau (French woman), George Peppard (Chase), Maurice Ronet (French lieutenant), Rosanna Schiaffino (Maria), Romy Schneider (Regine), Elke Sommer (Helga), Eli Wallach (Craig), Michael Callan (Eldridge), Peter Fonda (Weaver), Jim Mitchum (Grogan), Senta Berger (Trudi), Albert Lieven (Herr Metzger), Mervyn Johns (Dennis), Tutte Lemkow (Sikh soldier), John Crawford, Peter Vaughan (policeman), George Mikell (Russian sentry), Alf Kjellin (priest), Russ Titus, Alan Barnes (Tom), John Rogers (soldier), Marianne Deeming (Frau Metzger), Sean Kelly, Patrick Jordan (tank sergeant), James Chase (condemned soldier), Mickey Knox, Peter Arne, Malya Nappi (barmaid), Veite Bethke, Milo Sperber (camp prisoner), George Roubicek (Russian sentry), Riggs O'Hara, Charles De Temple, Al Waxman, Tom Busby, Robert Nichols, Graydon Gould, Larry Caringi, Ian Hughes, Anthony McBride, Colin Maitland, Tony Wallace (squad member), Joël Flateau (Jean-Pierre), Bee Duffell (Joan), Marianne Stone