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The Heroes (1973 film)
1973 Italian film
"Les héros" redirects here. For other uses, see Heros (disambiguation).
The Heroes (also known as Gli eroi, Les héros and Los héroes millonarios) is a 1973 Italian war-comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari.[2][3]
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The Heroes | |
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Directed by | Duccio Tessari |
Written by | Sergio Donati Luciano Vincenzoni |
Starring | Rod Steiger Rod Taylor |
Cinematography | Carlo Carlini |
Edited by | Mario Morra |
Music by | Riz Ortolani |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | 1973 (Italy) 1974 (UK) |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Countries | Italy France Spain |
Language | Italian |
Budget | $2,350,000[1] |
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- Rod Steiger as Guenther von Lutz
- Rosanna Schiaffino as Katrin
- Rod Taylor as Bob Robson
- Claude Brasseur as Raphael Tilbaudet
- Terry-Thomas as John Cooper
- Gianni Garko as Schreiber
- Aldo Giuffrè as Spartaco Amore
- Ángel Aranda as Cowlich
- Nino Segurini as German soldier
- Miguel Bosé as German soldier
- Antonio Pica as Dietrich
- Lucia Bosé (cameo)
Yul Brynner was announced to play the lead but pulled out.[1]
Part of the film production was done in the Egyptian Western Desert, several miles near the pyramid of Mydoom. A small Carson City, Nevada was built with river Nile mud on a woven reed and palm baskets but looked authentic from a distance. The city was full scale at the entrance but half-scale behind it.
- Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2010) p172
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.
- Cesare Zavattini (1984). L'ultimo schermo: cinema di guerra, cinema di pace. Dedalo, 1984. ISBN 8822050207.
- The Heroes at IMDb
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