- Title: ITALY: TANKS INVADE PIAZZA NAVONA IN ROME FOR FILMING OF "CATCH-22"
- Date: 8th June 1969
- Summary: TANKS IN PIAZZA; FILMING IN PROGRESS; DIRECTOR WITH FILM CREW; ACTORS AND CREW. Initials CP/V/PW/LAD Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 23rd June 1969 13:00
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- Location: ROME, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Reuters ID: LVA8VQ18LCYM4Z57Y3B81DKC6XWX
- Story Text: A SQUADRON OF TANKS INVADED ROME'S PIAZZA NAVONA LAST THURSDAY (JUNE 5) IN A HOLLYWOOD-STYLE PEACEFUL INVASION. THE PIAZZA WAS CONVERTED INTO A HUGE OUTDOOR MOVIE SET FOR THE FILMING OF THE MOVIE "CATCH-22".
THE FILM OF THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL BY JOSEPH HELLER, IS BEING DIRECTED BY WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN SCREEN DIRECTOR, MIKE NICHOLAS. THE STORY CONCERNS A SMALL GROUP OF FLYERS ON A TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND COMMUNITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IN 1944.
ALMOST ALL ARE A LITTLE CRAZY. ONE GETS BLOWN TO PIECES, ANOTHER COOLY FLIES HIMSELF INTO A MOUNTAIN. ONE IS CHOPPED IN HALF BY A PASSING FRIEND, A FIFTH JUST DISAPPEARS. IN ALL, IT IS A MIXTURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE MAYHEM IN THE GRAND SCALE.....AND PRIVATE PERVERSITY. THEY SPEND THEIR LEAVE IN A VARIETY OF WAYS IN ROME.
THE FILM STARS ALAN ARKIN, ANTHONY PERKINS, BOB NEWHART AND ORSON WELLES. A NUMBER OF ITALIAN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES WERE USED DURING THE FILMING IN ROME -- AMONG THEM OLIMPIA CARLISI.
"CATCH-22" HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE BEST AMERICAN NOVEL TO COME OUT OF WORLD WAR II .... THE BEST AMERICA NOVEL FOR YEARS. NICHOLAS AND HIS TEAM, ARE NOW ENTERING THE FINAL STAGES OF SIX MONTHS SHOOTING WITH ONLY THREE WEEKS FINAL SHOOTING OF INTERIORS IN HOLLYWOOD.
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