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The Girl and the General: Directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. With Rod Steiger, Virna Lisi, Umberto Orsini, Tony Gaggia. A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
- 1967-10
The Girl and the General (Italian: La Ragazza e il Generale) is a 1967 Italian anti-war comedy film starring Rod Steiger and Virna Lisi and produced by Carlo Ponti. Plot. A young woman (Virna Lisi) and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General (Rod Steiger) to Italian forces during World War I.
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A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly. Starring Rod ...
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- Rod Steiger
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Girl and the General is a 1967 war film set in Italy during World War II and stars Rod Steiger, Virna Lisi, and Umberto Orsini. The film is directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and tells the story of a German general who, after a series of losses on the Italian front, is ordered to capture and execute a group of rebel partisans.
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- Rod Steiger, Virna Lisi, Umberto Orsini
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
The general escapes from his bumbling captor but falls into the hands of a peasant girl, Ada, who agrees to share the general with Tarasconi for an even split of the reward. She later tricks the soldier, however, by taking his rifle and locking him in a railroad car.
During World War I, a poor Italian private (Orsini) and a peasant girl (Lisi) capture an aristocratic Austrian General (Steiger). The Italians trek back to their own lines, hoping to gain a fortune of 1,000 Lira for the capture of the general. The movie focuses on the three leads for virtually the entire film.
