You Can't Win 'Em All

You Can't Win 'Em All
1970 film poster by Frank McCarthy
Directed by	Peter Collinson
Written by	Leo Gordon
Produced by	Gene Corman
Starring	Tony Curtis Charles Bronson Fikret Hakan Salih Güney Michèle Mercier
Cinematography	Ken Higgins
Music by	Bert Kaempfert
Production company	SRO
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	24 July 1970
Running time	97 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

You Can't Win 'Em All is a 1970 war film, written by Leo Gordon (also an actor who appears in the film) and directed by Peter Collinson, starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson as two American soldiers in 1922 Turkey who protect the three daughters of a Turkish governor while thwarting a Turkish army colonel's attempt to take gold on a train the two soldiers happen to be on. The setting is the time of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).

Cast

• Tony Curtis: Adam Dyer
• Charles Bronson: Josh Corey
• Michèle Mercier: Aila
• Grégoire Aslan: Osman Bey
• Fikret Hakan: Colonel Ahmed Elçi
• Salih Güney: Captain Enver
• Patrick Magee: Mustapha Kayan (really Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
• Tony Bonner: Reese
• John Acheson: Davis
• Horst Janson: Wollen
• Leo Gordon: Bolek
• Reed De Rouen: US naval officer
• Paul Stassino: Major

Production notes

The film was originally known as Dubious Patriots'.

"The country, the people, were fabulous," said Tony Curtis shortly after filming ended. "The thing that did us in was the very shoddy British production set up. They promised certain things on location and didn't provide them. There were inadequate sanitary conditions: people got sick. The director, Peter Collinson? I have no comment about Mr Collinson. Some day I'll tell you about him."

Aircraft sequences were flown and coordinated by Charles Boddington and Lewis Benjamin. The aircraft were owned by ex-RCAF pilot Lynn Garrison who shipped several of his S.E.5 replicas from Ireland to Turkey for the production. They were previously featured in The Blue Max and Darling Lili and would go on to star in Von Richthofen and Brown, Zeppelin, The Great Waldo Pepper, and numerous TV commercials.

See also

• Vera Cruz, a 1954 film with a similar plot set in the Mexican Revolution.

Bibliography

• Benjamin, Lewis. "Turkish Delight!". Aeroplane Monthly. October 2008, Vol. 36, Issue 426, ISSN 0143-7240, pp. 32–37.

External links

• You Can't Win 'Em All at IMDb