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The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Comedy and was nominated by the Golden Globe Awards committee for Best Director (Stanley Kramer), Best Actor Comedy (Anthony Quinn), Best Actress Comedy (Anna Magnani), Best Original Score (Ernest Gold) and Best Original Song ("Stay", Ernest Gold and Norman Gimbel)
Feb 27, 1970 · 1 Video. 18 Photos. Comedy Drama War. During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans. Director. Stanley Kramer. Writers. Robert Crichton. William Rose. Ben Maddow. Stars. Anthony Quinn. Anna Magnani. Virna Lisi. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist. Added by 5.4K users.
- (4.2K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Stanley Kramer
- 1970-02-27
A charming but laborious novel, I think Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria attempts but falls short in something that Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, one of my favourite books, would later achieve remarkably. Both are comic epics with a great mass of colourful characters; stories that have, just below their surface, a penalty of ...
- (1.2K)
- Mass Market Paperback
- Robert Crichton
It shows you what one town will do to save it's wine from the Nazis. Under threat of torture and death the village people will not give up the secret Santa Vittoria!!
- (11)
- Stanley Kramer
- PG
- Anthony Quinn
Director Stanley Kramer's 1970 comedy "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Until the late, great video company Twilight Time released the film on Blu-ray some years ago, I hadn't seen the movie since it was originally released and only had vague recollections of it.
Summaries. During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans. Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag.
Directed by the great Stanley Kramer, The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) is the picaresque tale of a small Italian town during WWII who defy the invading German army by hiding their greatest treasure... a secret cache of a million bottles of wine!
