a very accurate film . Rome was an open city . if it were not for the stupidity of the American high command , a lot of lives would have been saved .don't pay attention to the previous idiots' comments about this movie . it is very good .robert Mitchum and peter Falk are above average as is the script . by the way...Americans committed plenty of atrocities in world war two ;i have three words for that -- Dresden ; Hiroshima ; and Nagasaki.one of the points this movie makes is that there are no real winners in a war . as Plato said , " only the dead have seen the end of war . give this movie a shot ;it is better than the mindless jingo-ism of a john Wayne or [ god , help us ! ] a Ronald Regan film . ciao !
