The Greatest Battle is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 war movie.

Cast

• Helmut Berger
  Helmut Berger
  Helmut Berger is an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He is most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.He appears primarily in European cinema, but...
  
  : Lt. Kurt Zimmer
• Samantha Eggar
  Samantha Eggar
  Samantha Eggar is an English film, television and voice actress.-Early life:She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London to an Anglo-Irish father and a mother of Dutch and Portuguese descent...
  
  : Annelise Hackermann
• Giuliano Gemma
  Giuliano Gemma
  -Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
  
  : Captain Malcolm Scott
• Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
  
  : General Foster
• John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
  : Professor O'Hara
• Stacy Keach
  Stacy Keach
  Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical...
  
  : Lt. Manfred Roland
• Ray Lovelock
  Ray Lovelock (actor)
  Ray Lovelock , is a film and television actor primarily known in Europe.-Early life:Lovelock's mother was Italian and his father was English. They met during the Allied occupation of Italy in World War II...
  
  : John Foster
• Aldo Massasso: Jean, the reporter
• Venantino Venantini
  Venantino Venantini
  Venantino Venantini is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 140 films since 1954.-Selected filmography:* No Sun in Venice * Les Tontons flingueurs * Le Corniaud...
  
  : Michael
• Ida Galli
  Ida Galli
  Ida Galli is an Italian film actress best known for her roles in Spaghetti Western films in the 1960s and 1970s.She has made over 60 film appearances since 1960. She starred in films such as Adios Gringo , Blood For A Silver Dollar often billed as Evelyn Stewart alongside Giuliano Gemma .-...
  
  : Miss Scott
• Edwige Fenech
  Edwige Fenech
  Edwige Fenech is a French-born Italian actress and film producer.- Biography :Fenech was born in Bône , in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies...
  
  : Danielle
• Andrea Bosic
  Andrea Bosic
  Andrea Bosic is an Italian film actor of Slovene origin. He appeared in 52 films between 1951 and 1985, mainly in so-called Spaghetti western...
  
  : Mimis Parnat
• Mirko Ellis: Captain Hans
• Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
  
  : Narrator (Voice)

Reception

Despite the great cast the movie generally received poor reviews. For Mick Martin

Mick Martin

Michael Paul "Mick" Martin was an Irish soccer player during the 1970s and 1980s.Born in Dublin, he played for Bohemians, Manchester United, Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion, Vancouver Whitecaps, Cardiff City, Preston North End, Peterborough United, Rotherham United and the Republic of...

 and Marsha Porter it shows "lots of phony battle scenes, bad acting, and a poor script". Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...

writes: "Amateurish muddle about WW2 combines tired vignettes with well-known stars, dubbed sequences with others, and newsreel footage narrated by Orson Welles. A waste of everybody's time".