Anzio / Cockleshell Heroes / Hellcats Of The Navy (Box Set) DVD

Anzio: After landing with allied troops at Anzio, Italy in 1994, war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) and Corporal Rabinoff (Peter Falk) advise their Commander that the road to Rome is open. But instead the Commander attempts to build a coastal stronghold only to discover the Germans have invaded the beach. After many casualties, the allied forces eventually smash through the German defences in one of the bloodiest portrayals of World War II ever fought. Cockleshell Heroes: In World War II, Royal Marine Stringer (Jose Ferrer) and Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) chose volunteers for an unknown job. They trained the volunteers intensively in a top secrecy then embarked on the most dangerous mission of the war- the canoe invasion of an enemy held French port for the purpose of blowing up giant battleships. Hellcats Of The Navy: Dramatic World War II action aboard a U.S. submarine in which Commander Casey Abbott (Ronald Reagan) leads a daring mission to Japan. He ventures into treacherous waters and destroys an enemy installation, but when a crash dive is ordered he is left swimming alone in the dangerous seas and tested to the limit in this epic war drama.

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