5 Branded Women (Five Branded Women)

It's All About The Numbers - Five (79 items)
list by Alabama1971

Best of Hollywood and Italy, with a efectist and trite war plot. Ritt is powerful in spite of the circumstances, and allowed to be sexier than in USA, in the scene with the 5 girls in the pond.Each love affair is too much radical sacrifice (Moreau kiling Basehart, Guardino ann Miles executed, Mangano waiting death with Heflin)

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas.