Bitter Victory (1957)

Cautiously Recommended
USA/France
Feature Film
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: René Hardy, Gavin Lambert, Nicholas Ray, Paul Gallico
Cinematographer: Michel Kelber
Composer: Maurice Le Roux
Cast: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell, Alfred Burke, Sean Kelly

In Ray’s well acted and crafted though somewhat uninspired Second World War pic, a daring but stuttering raid on Rommel’s desert headquarters becomes complicated considerably by the fact that the two British officers leading it are both in love with the same woman – one is married to her, and the other was her lover at the outbreak of hostilities, but had not seen her again until just before the fateful operation. Iain.Stott