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Best movie ever!

Admirable film.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

"The Best of Enemies" is a comical farce set during WWII and concerns fighting between the Italians and Brits in North Africa. Instead of being a film about large armed forces, it's about a bunch of misfits on all sides and primarily is about two annoyingly stubborn officers. The reviews for "The Best of Enemies" are so good that I decided to force myself to see the entire film and I resisted the impulse to turn it off and cut my losses. After all, a lot of people really liked it and I wanted to see why. And, for the life of me, I still have no idea why the other reviews are so positive. While this isn't a terrible film, it just never felt very satisfying and I kept hoping it would get better. Overall, I didn't find it very funny nor did I particularly enjoy it--and I think the kooky musical score only made this worse.

Saw this film while stationed at a remote site in the military. As I remember, it was one of the few movies, at the time, that really made me laugh. It so resembled the nuttiness of everyday military life. It displays attitudes of peoples from different cultures required to depend upon each other for survival. It shows that war, itself, is a national problem while the average soldier is really not so different from his enemy. If this were on DVD, I would purchase it, in a heartbeat. The truths brought forward in this story are as meaningful today as when I saw it in 1962. Best yet, every member of the military audience viewing it, laughed until they rolled. It didn't matter what their political orientation, the humor was there for all to see. If a fan of "King of Hearts", I recommend it.

Another good war movie. Who says war movies need to have blood and violence? This was a battle of wits between the Italian commander and the British commander.This movie has all the elements that precipitate war. Two armies that do not speak the same language with claims to past glory. And in the end they find themselves as men with a common goal - to survive in the desert.The football scene was interesting in that, peeled down to basics, the men found a common passion. Could it be saying that conflict can be settled in a sportsmanlike manner? The funniest dialogue I found was when the British commander ordered the Italians to dig a latrine in the middle of the desert because it was the civilised thing to do. The Italian commander retorted, "My people were building sewers while your people were painting themselves blue."

This movie is an little known gem. The movie not only sparkles with Sordi's more slapstick humor and Niven's classic underplaying, it also masterfully captures the madness, humor and struggle of those engaged in combat. Niven and Sordi struggle to stay connected to their humanity in North African desert during a war where first one has the advantage and then the other does. If this were on DVD/VHS I would buy a copy.