From Hell to Victory
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
| Produced by | Edmondo Amati |
| Story by | Umberto Lenzi |
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| Cinematography | Jose Luis Alcaine |
| Edited by | Vincenzo Tomasi |
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From Hell to Victory is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1979 by Umberto Lenzi. The movie was a co-production between Italy (where it was released as Contro 4 bandiere), France (where is known with the title De l'enfer à la victoire) and Spain (where is known as De Dunkerke a la victoria). Some internationally distributed versions credit Umberto Lenzi as "Hank Milestone".
In 1939 six friends take drinks in a suburb of Paris and promise each other to meet again once World War II is over. Two of them are French, two others are Americans, one is a German and another one is British. All of them fight in the war and after the Liberation of Paris only three of them live to keep their promise.
The screenplay is credited to Anthony Fritz, while the Monthly Film Bulletin noted that some sources credits Umberto Lenzi, Gianfranco Clerici and Jose Luis Martinez Molls.
The Monthly Film Bulletin noted that they had to "admire the resourcefulness of a relatively low-budget production which still runs to a quite respectable crowd of extras and such details as a genuine vintage fire engine in the London blitz scene" and that "taken on the level of a ripping yarn, From Hell to Victory is really quite amiable, although the routine script and direction make everything much more predictable than it need have been".
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