The Winds of War
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Leo Gordon
Michael Mcguire
Francesco Carnelutti
Jack Ging
Peter Graves
Osman Ragheb
Film Details
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Synopsis
Herman Wouk's best-selling 1971 epic about a fictional Navy family in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor came to TV in this 16-hour miniseries over seven nights (initially it had been planned for only twelve hours). At about $40-million, it was the single most expensive television event up to that time. Filmed over a period of 13 months in over 400 locations, this TV saga captured a massive audience not only for its content but also its stars. Robert Mitchum, as a fictitious commander who hobnobs with the greats of the time and is asked for advice by FDR, Churchill and others, did his first TV acting here (although the TV movie he made subsequently, "One Shoe Makes It Murder", was shown first).Ali MacGraw also made her TV acting debut as the Jewish girl who falls in love with Mitchum's WASP son (Jan-Michael Vincent). Polly Bergen, as Mitchum's ambitious, socially-active wife, and Ralph Bellamy, as FDR (reprising the role he made famous on stage and screen in "Sunrise at Campobello" over 22 years earlier), won Emmy Award nominations as Supporting Actress and Actor. Other nominations: Outstanding Limited Series, direction (Part 7), art direction and set decoration (Part 1), costume design (Part 2), editing (Part 7), special effects (Part 4), and four more in the sound category. It won Emmys for photography (part 7) and costume design (part 2).An equally expansive miniseries, with much of the same cast and production crew, and based on Wouk's sequel novel, "War and Remembrance", covering the events from Pearl Harbor to war's end, was scheduled to begin production in late 1985 as a monumental 30-hour miniseries for the 1987-88 television season.
Cast
Leo Gordon
Michael Mcguire
Francesco Carnelutti
Jack Ging
Peter Graves
Osman Ragheb
Chuck Mitchell
Felix Nelson
Rene Kolldehoff
Howard Lang
John Sanderford
Jerry G Velasco
Patrick Allen
Joseph Hacker
Ben Murphy
Hugh Gillin
Deborah Winters
Elizabeth Hoffman
Timothy Stack
Werner Kreindl
Tom Mcfadden
Roy Poole
Hy Aberg
Barbara Steele
Ali Macgraw
Bruce Hayes
James Kerry
Andrew Duggan
Dr. Dieter Wagner
Carolyn Rusoff
Ivo Jurida
Justin Buerhlen
Demeter Bitenc
Gene Ross
Joseph Taggart
Lin Mccarthy
Albert Morin
Venco Kapural
Ben Piazza
Don Collier
John Houseman
Lawrence Pressman
Jerry Fujikawa
Charles Lane
Maysie Hoy
Victoria Tennant
Francesco Chianese
Scott Brady
Anton Diffring
John Karlen
Jane Bolton
Wolfgang Preiss
Anatoly Chaguinian
Neil Dickson
Laurence Haddon
Elliott Street
Damir Weiss
Fritz Von Friedl
Enzo G. Castellari
John Harkins
Logan Ramsey
Mickey Knox
William Z Woodson
Gianni Rizzo
Henryk Tifer
Colin Douglas
Matt Clark
Robert Mitchum
Karl Otto Alberty
Ibrica Jusic
Joachim Hansen
Anthony Palmer
Duncan Ross
Albert Ruprecht
John Carter
Uwe Falkenbach
Richard Barnes
Jeremy Kemp
Allan Cuthbertson
Gunter Meisner
Ken Lynch
Rod Pilloud
Haym Topol
Ralph Bellamy
Minnie G Lindsey
Polly Bergen
Peter Brocco
Ben Hammer
Edmund Pegge
Jacques Berlin
David Dukes
William Berger
Ray Blackburn
Richard X. Slattery
Davis Roberts
Patrick Cameron
Ben Astar
Michael Logan
Byron Morrow
George Murdock
Stephen Parlya
Mario Dergang
Rainer Penkert
Anton Strunjak
Mitch Carter
Siegfried Rauch
Dick Armstrong
Judith Atwell
Hugh Liggett
Stelio Candelli
Stefan Gierasch
Damir Mejovesk
Richard Brent
John Dehner
Edmund Purdom
Art Lund
Paul Muller
Guido Wikland
Reinhold Claszewski
Ron Rifkin
Steve Liebman
Charles Pitt
Ferdy Mayne
Jan-michael Vincent
Tommy Lee Holland
Alexander Kerst
Barry Morse
Lisa Eilbacher
David Cardy
Arthur Brauss
Lewis Ciannelli
Belle Ellig
Eloise Hardt
James Ray
Michael Ensign
Sky Du Mont
Peter Bourne
Crew
Karen Bauer
Karen Bauer
Alan Bernard
John F. Burnett
John Cartwright
Robert Cobert
Charles Correll
Dan Curtis
Jackson Degovia
Roy Downey
Robin Gregory
Bernard Gribble
Earle Herdan
Helmut Klee
Stevan Larner
Malcolm Middleton
Mike Minor
Richard Richtsfeld
Thomas Roysden
Gina Scheerer
Gary Smith
Keith Stafford
Jack Tucker
Hasso Von Hugo
Hasso Von Hugo
Tommy Welsh
John Wood
Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk
Peter Zinner
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Aired in United States February 10, 1983
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Aired in United States February 13, 1983
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Paramount Pictures' Domestic Television Division released a syndicated, condensed version of the mini-series.
Released in United States on Video December 14, 1989
Aired in United States February 6, 1983
Aired in United States February 7, 1983
Aired in United States February 8, 1983
Aired in United States February 9, 1983
