Help wanted identifying Italian set WW2 movie (late 60s?)

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Help wanted identifying Italian set WW2 movie (late 60s?) Mar 4, 2022 13:41:27 GMT

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Post by timshelboy on Mar 4, 2022 13:41:27 GMT

I saw the beginning 10-15 mins on UK TV no later than in early 70s... at the time it took 5yrs plus for cinema films to appear on TV so I think that makes it pre 1970 product - suspect late 60s. For whatever reason (I'm guessing that Shirley Bassey was topping the bill on SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE PALLADIUM on a rival channel... we only had three terrestrial channels, children) I never saw the whole movie. And I'd like to

Italian set. Opening sequence has hero as (partisan?) observing German occupation forces (I may have got that wrong - did the German's Occupy Italy at any point or did Italy have to wait til the Allies Occupied it a bit later on?- I recall both Italian setting and German troops - possibly one memory erroneous)round up citizens for reprisal executions... including the hero's main squeeze.. a comely local wench chosen by the Death Squad I think as she is entering/or exiting the steps of a church. Hero gets to observe her execution by firing squad from a distance........

Definitely Not THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR in which

SPOILER: Click to show

William Holden gets to watch Lilli Palmer face a firing squad.

Nor is it FIVE FOR HELL

Thanks in advance.

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Help wanted identifying Italian set WW2 movie (late 60s?) Mar 4, 2022 19:20:52 GMT

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Post by teleadm on Mar 4, 2022 19:20:52 GMT

Was it colour? You must have had Colour TV before Sweden.

Shirley Bassey did a London Palladium Show in 1967, to my knowledge last time on ITV at least in 1960's, and a BBC Show of the Week in 1969.

I'm not a good detective, just trying to narrow it down.

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Help wanted identifying Italian set WW2 movie (late 60s?) Mar 4, 2022 21:02:11 GMT

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Post by timshelboy on Mar 4, 2022 21:02:11 GMT

Mar 4, 2022 19:20:52 GMT teleadm said:

Was it colour? You must have had Colour TV before Sweden.

Shirley Bassey did a London Palladium Show in 1967, to my knowledge last time on ITV at least in 1960's, and a BBC Show of the Week in 1969.

I'm not a good detective, just trying to narrow it down.

Shirley Bassey regularly cluttered up the TV schedules - "Light entertainment" I believe was the term - for some quarter of a century with her playing to the gallery delivery, hackneyed gestures, scary facial contortions and rather racy and outre sparkly frocks with the midriff cut out.

The film was in colour. I don't know when colour Tvs arrived in UK but our household did not acquire colour or BBC2 - invented in 1962 I think - til earlly 70s - my cruel father told me and my brother we had to make a choice between a colour set or a BBC2 set - we could not have both - knowing full well that my brother would vote for colour for the football and I would want BBC2 for the Ava Gardner matinees. He was joking, it transpired, Don't ever have parents.....

Nils Asther definitely wasn't in the war movie - I can give you that for nothing - although as GENERAL YEN amply demonstrated he knew his way round an execution scene - but his penultimate movie LADY IN WHITE has turned up free on the rarefilmm site, a Thriller and I think from somewhere called Sweden - Do you know this country?

. I'm not European any more so can't be expected to be familiar with it. I'm going to watch this weekend. Here is link - he gets top billing on imdb so hopefully has decent part - some of his 40s efforts were a bit negligible (his CHARLIE CHAN in particular demeaning)

VITA FRUN

His 1945 JEALOUSY there too but not up to much

I have also found dvd source for his German THREE CUCKOO CLOCKS from 1926

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