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The World at War: 13 -- Tough Old Gut, Italy November 1942 (1973)

1973 · Short film · 30 min

  • War

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Produced by Ben Shephard; written by David Wheeler; narrated by Laurence Olivier Covers the Anglo-American advance from Sicily. The title is from General Mark Clark's remark, "I can see Churchill now at his map with his pointer pointing out the soft belly of the Mediterranean and after I got there I often thought what a tough old gut it was, instead of the soft belly theat he had led us to believe."

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