D Cairns

So, if it's definitely a Pier Angeli film, it's probably The Battle of the Bulge because the IMDb is unlikely to have missed an entire Angeli film. Also, TBOTB is the only film with Pier Angeli where her name appears far down the cast list, suggesting she has a cameo role.

I think either you're wrong about Italy or you're wrong about Angeli.

Third Man

Could be that or maybe even The Big Red One or The Devils Brigade.

Simon

winsfordtown

I'm beginning to wonder whether it's set it Italy. It was the spraying of powder to stop the outbreak of typhus which was the other stand out moment of the film I can remember. Wghat is strange is that I've only discovered in the last five years that it did happen in Italy following the fall of Rome. So I have two facts that even if I was drunk when it was shown of a Friday I can't have made them up.
The only other war film in IMDB which it could be is 'Every Bastard a King' which set in the Six Day War but there is no review and no mention whether this film was shot in black and white.

wearysloth

Castle Keep and Astrid Heeren instead of Pier Angeli?

asiamiles

Pier Angeli's American GI boyfreind in BATTLE OF THE BULGE was played by none other than Telly Savalas. She didn't have blonde hair in the film.

hankoler

PIER ANGELLI was in the film BATTLE OF THE BULGE MADE IN 1965, is this the one.?

winsfordtown

It's not the 'Battle of the Bulge' or 'Castle Keep' because the film I'm thinking about was shot in black and white and it definitly included scenes about American acting as occupying force. I can't think of where I would have got Pier Angelli's name in 1978 unless I read the name off the a film credits. I didn't know until years later she was James Dean's girlfriend.
I'm beginning to think it's quite possible that I've confused her with another actress but looking at her body of work I just don't what of her films would appeal to a teenager.

hankoler

could it be "THE DEVIL MAKES THREE".?

winsfordtown

This has got to be a real 'B' Movie because I've gone through the list below and not only does it not match with Pier Angeli is doesn't match with any on the list

List of World War II films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

D Cairns

I wouldn't rely on Wikipedia so much as the IMDb, which aims for completeness. And it's impossible to match Italy, WWII and Pier Angeli on her complete list of film credits there.

I dismissed THE DEVIL MAKES THREE because it is set after the war, and in Germany, and PA plays a lead role not a cameo.

You could have got Pier Angeli's name off some film credits, just not the credits of the film you are thinkng of...?

asiamiles

Yes, memory plays funny tricks on us at times. In this case he is either has the wrong name/actress or more likely is simply mixing-up two different films; it seems rather too much of a coincidence that (a dark-haired) Pier Angeli plays the exact same role as described in BULGE. Alas, I haven't seen the film recently enough to know if the "spraying" scene described is in it. It should also be noted that both it and THE VICTORS, another "possible" mentioned in this thread (but something I don't have any memory of having seen), exist in different versions, so it's always possible the "spraying" scene was cut thus making identification even more difficult.

winsfordtown

The spraying scene was not titalating. The officer met the blonde girl when they liberated the city then lost touch with and a little found in a queue to fumigated and she was embarassed.
I also agree D Cairns that over the years I could have mixed films and names up. I certainly havent seen a picture of Pier Angeli with blonde hair.

asiamiles

The scene you describe has a definite but vague air of familiarity about it, so I would guess it's something I saw at some time or other, but it's not one I can put a name to.