European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Cli flee for cover at German Lanka break through defend ii in bulge filming by Robert mu5el, up staff writer not Ever Man get the Chance Olive his life Over again but on thei Nowy slopes of the Guadarrama mountains. I cume face to face with myself is i will on the grim Grey morning of dec. 16. 1944.on that faraway Dawn the German armies smashed through the american lines in the forests of the ardennes in Belgium to open the Battle of thebulge1 the last great Battle of the Sec Ond world War and i awoke in a commandeered House to find enemy tanks thrashing about the neighbourhood. Exit one War correspondent through the Back window Boe in Long for general Headquarters. The saying if that generals die in bed and what was Good enough for generals was. In my Baity estimate of the situation Good enough for is going on n the mountains behind the medieval City of Segovia Spain is a reenactment of the Battle that broke Adolf Hitler s legions one overlooks the a Navillon cameras recording the scene for Cine Rama and the platoons of technicians. It s a reasonable facsimile of the historic clash that decided the Fate of the Post British director Ken Annakin and triumvirate of american producers Phil Vordon. Milton Sperling and Sid Ney Harmon Are not trying to match the original in size. After All. Hitler lung three a rules of 290.000 men sup ported by 1.900 pieces of heavy artillery against 75.000 americans stretched thinly Over a front of 85 said Annakin. We Are Lucky in that the nil pick quickly became ascribes of Small bottles with mum units Cut from the main body Al Klinc or defending vital Points. Our Story once we have established the vast scale of the Battle. Is concerned with the must dramatic of these to the death struggles Between individual he spoke great tanks lumbered to Ward us through the Snow that clings to the cold castilian mountains till Well into Spring. Like science fiction monsters said Annakin with unusual excitement for a director of his stature his previous assignment those magnificent men and their flying machines is one of this year s 20th Century Fox epics. Eventually the scene ended wit thick flakes of Snow beginning to fall and the men in uniform trekking to Ward a freezing tent where lunch was being served from a Chuck Wagon be came recognizable not As american or German soldiers and officers but a Henry Fonda Robert Ryan Robert Shaw Dana Andrews George Mont Gomery James Macarthur Telly a Valus to Hardin and Charles three prominent German actors Hans Christian Blech Werner Peters an Karl Alburty. German Gen Meinrud von Lauchert who had five tanks shot out from under him on the russian front and was awarded the rare Golden tank award by Hitler personally. Is the German technical adviser on the film. Cols Hcrman Jofto of Kansas City is the american military adviser and the producers. United Stales pictures invited me Down to add my War correspondent s mile. Hoy. Colonel sad Macarthur son of actress Fielen Hayes to Rufli. If you pull a pin Miroir a Grendi can you put it Back in Heck said Jotty. You throw Iii Shaw the Brilliant Knoll so oct Tir who was the Blond killer in Krum Russia with love also had a question lie plays col hcs Slor a German Tan corps commander fighting toward ant trapped in Battle Art James Macarthur George Montgomery. Werp which. Hitler believed once Cap tured would � prolong the War that the allies would agree to a negotiate peace. Can an officer physically Stop a Man who is retreating said Joffe. You can grab him and say hey where do you think you re going and shove him Buck into the Fonda is col Kelley a role based impart on an american officer whose suspicions shul the germans were massing for a final thrust were not taken seriously by his Hack to the set through mud and Snow. Fonda said i Tike the cold weather. We re sup posed to he cold and up Here it does take acting to look thai Way. The Dis Comfort is part of the Job which May explain Why he has been u Star for More than 20 said the Battle of inc bulge was hems shot in Spain instead of on the Warner Brothers lot in Cali fornia because of the weather the terrain very much like the ardennes and the decision of the Spanish army to make available 70-ton tanks similar to the Tiger tanks used by the German plus the Crews to Man them. I was too Young for the War Shaw shivered. But they Tell me these weather conditions Are just like the real Shuw. 37. Is Walling the birth of his seventh child and working on a new novel and a screenplay Between third novel is a n St seller in Hail Kiln film people consider him certainly fur International stardom. I Pluyd an irishman in the Lames bund my to Russia with Jive he said then n Dane in the to production of Hamlet ill in inner. Now i m a German Anil they Tell no i m l Ein considered fur the full of an american Oen Cumer in the a inter full1.""nnrllni." said his Beautiful wife actress Mary l a you make it soundalike 1 married the 1 ii led Friday apri 23, "65 the stars and stripes fog ii
