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The Pigeon That Took Rome is a 1962 American comedy war film directed and written by Melville Shavelson and starring Charlton Heston. The film is set in the Italian Campaign of World War II and was based on the 1961 novel The Easter Dinner by former spy Donald Downes.
With Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino, Salvatore Baccaloni. In 1944, two American spies, posing as priests, infiltrate German occupied Rome to relay information to HQ but can only communicate via pigeons due to the imposed radio silence.
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- Comedy, War
- Melville Shavelson
- 1962-06-20
Tasked with transmitting reports to Allied soldiers elsewhere in Europe, spies Capt. Paul MacDougall (Charlton Heston) and Sgt. Joseph Contini (Harry Guardino) go to Italy during...
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- Melville Shavelson
- Comedy
- Charlton Heston
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Charlton Heston takes an unexpectedly comic turn in the 1962 sleeper, The Pigeon That Took Rome. In it, Heston plays Paul MacDougall, an American soldier during World War II who is sent to Nazi-occupied Rome to be a spy for the Allies.
- Melville Shavelson, Daniel J. Mccauley
- Charlton Heston
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Chuck stars as an American officer who’s sent behind the lines of pre-liberated Rome to report on German activities. But when radio communcation becomes overly risky they’re forced to resort to carrier pigeons… at least until a wedding feast fiasco causes a major pigeon party mixup.