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Show 'Winds' chronicles WWII perils, passions The year-long shooting schedule began aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., and ended in Port Heuneme, Calif., in a set that doubled for Pearl Harbor. In between those two shoots, however, the cast of "The Winds of War" traveled all over the world to more than 404 sites from Florence, Flor-ence, Venice, Milan, Munich. London and Yugoslavia to Vienna, Rome and Washington. Washing-ton. Actors with "The Winds of War," billed as the most expensive television miniser-ies miniser-ies with a budget of nearly $40 million, worked with a script of 962 pages and 1,785 scenes which were completed com-pleted four days ahead of the 206-day shooting schedule. Some more statistics from the 18-hour, epic miniseries: There were a million feet of exposed film, more than 4.000 camera set-ups and 285 speaking parts. The cast for the drama, which was adapted for television televi-sion by Herman Wouk who also wrote the best-seller of the same name, stars Robert Mitchum as "Pug" Henry, Ali MacGraw as Natalie Jastrow. Jan-Michael Vincent as Byron Henry. John Houseman as Aaron Jastrow, Polly Bergen as Rhoda Henry and Peter Graves as Fred Kirby. The story the dramatic events of WWII is seen through the eyes of Pug Henry, a military attache and unofficial emissary of President Presi-dent Roosevelt in 1939, who meets all the leaders of Europe Hitler. Stalin, Mussolini. Churchill. At the same time. Germany's Germa-ny's inner workings are revealed through the eyes ol an anti-Nazi military leader. Gen. Armin von Roon (Jeremy Kemp). All is not war strategi. in "The Winds of War." however the personal stories are here too: of Pug. his wife and her lover as well as the young woman who wants to be Pug's lover: his son. Byron, and the American Jewish woman he i '. . hj W y Ij-jf f I i , V- Robert Mitchum loves; and her uncle, a wri.er, who becomes trapped in the country he thought would protect pro-tect him. As the story begins. Pug and his wife are sailing for Berlin where he will be the naval attache and meet up with Hitler, who is putting the wheels in motion to begin the war. The drama begins on Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. (ET) on ABC and ends on Sunday, Feb. 13. |
