| | | A Stanley Kramer Production.
Features: DVD, Sensormatic
Simple hearted wily Italians band together to outwit occupying Nazis.
"Humor, charm, suspense, romance...[a] knockout!" Variety
Editor's Note
A small Italian village, led by an oft-drunk mayor, tries to hide a million bottles of wine from the Nazis in this picturesque adaptation of Robert Crichton's comic novel. Stanley Kramer (IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD) directs an impressive cast led by screen legend Anthony Quinn (LA STRADA) and Italian beauty Anna Magnani (OPEN CITY).
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: TCFHE/MGM |
| Release Date: 5/13/2008 |
| Running Time: 139 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1969 | | Catalog ID: 110635 | | UPC: 00883904106357 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Anna Magnani | | Anthony Quinn | | Giancarlo Giannini | | Virna Lisi | | Ben Maddow - Screenplay | | Earle Herdan - Editor | | Ernest Gold - Original Music By | | George Glass - Producer | | Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer | | Robert Clatworthy - Production Designer | | Robert Crichton - Based On Novel By | | Stanley Kramer - Producer | | Stanley Kramer - Director | | William A. Lyon - Editor | | William Rose - Screenplay |
| Awards |
Winner (1970) | | | Golden Globe, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy | |
Nominee (1970) | | | Golden Globe, Stanley Kramer, Best Director - Motion Picture | | | Golden Globe, Anthony Quinn, Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy | | | Golden Globe, Anna Magnani, Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy | | | Golden Globe, Ernest Gold, Best Original Score | | | Golden Globe, Ernest Gold, Norman Gimbel ("Stay"), Best Original Song | | | Oscar, William A. Lyon, Earle Herdan, Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, Ernest Gold, Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
The Secret of Santa Vittoria comes near being a dramatic knockout, so tempered with humor and understanding that it also becomes an idyll of war and Italian peasantry. Carrying charm, suspense, romance, the production offers Anthony Quinn at his seasoned best, a plot and unfoldment that holds the spectator...Based on the Robert Crichton bestseller, its story - said to be true and to have become a legend - is simple. The people of a hill town in northern Italy are suddenly thrown into shock when apprised that a detachment of the retreating German army is to descend on their town to confiscate all their wine, their very life blood...Screenplay painstakingly developes this conflict, to which Stanley Kramer's direction adds fascinating character evolvement and ingenious invention.
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