The Heroes (1973 film)

"Les héros" redirects here. For other uses, see Heros (disambiguation).

The Heroes (also known as Gli eroi, Les héros and Los héroes millonarios) is a 1973 Italian war-comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari.^[2][3]

The Heroes
Directed by	Duccio Tessari
Written by	Sergio Donati Luciano Vincenzoni
Starring	Rod Steiger Rod Taylor
Cinematography	Carlo Carlini
Edited by	Mario Morra
Music by	Riz Ortolani
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	1973 (1973) (Italy) 1974 (1974) (UK)
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Italy France Spain
Language	Italian
Budget	$2,350,000[1]

Cast

• Rod Steiger as Guenther von Lutz
• Rosanna Schiaffino as Katrin
• Rod Taylor as Bob Robson
• Claude Brasseur as Raphael Tilbaudet
• Terry-Thomas as John Cooper
• Gianni Garko as Schreiber
• Aldo Giuffrè as Spartaco Amore
• Ángel Aranda as Cowlich
• Nino Segurini as German soldier
• Miguel Bosé as German soldier
• Antonio Pica as Dietrich
• Lucia Bosé (cameo)

Production

Yul Brynner was announced to play the lead but pulled out.^[1]

Part of the film production was done in the Egyptian Western Desert, several miles near the pyramid of Mydoom. A small Carson City, Nevada was built with river Nile mud on a woven reed and palm baskets but looked authentic from a distance. The city was full scale at the entrance but half-scale behind it.