The Americanization of Emily
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Swinging's their game and London will never be the same!
The Americanization of Emily (1964) is an American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas and James Coburn, and loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie, who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day.
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James Garner stars as a US Naval officer who is chosen to be the martyr at D-Day on June 6, 1944. His superior orders him to be the first casualty of the invasion, while ironically he is actually a coward and does everything he can to stay away from combat.
