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Question on the ending (SPOILER WARNING)


I saw this many years ago when it first came out and was impressed with it. I don't think it has been on tv much. I wish TCM would get it on the air. I think it was very much underated at the time. I think in the ending that Van Heflin stays behind to hold off the Nazis to give the rest time to escape. One of the women stays behind with Heflin to help him. I don't know who she was. Can anyone help? Also was Heflin wounded was why she stayed behind?
Kind of a similar ending to For Whom the Bell Tolls in which Cooper convinces Ingrid to leave.

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Jovanka stays behind with him. I don't think Heflin was wounded.

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I have just seen this movie so I can confirm that the girl that stays behind with Van Heflin is Silvana Mangano, who plays Jovanka. Neither of them are wounded but they will surely die when the German soldiers approach their trench.
We don't actually see this but there are no doubts that it will happen.

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