so glad I stumbled across this film.

I saw this film years ago one rainy Saturday afternoon on BBC2.
It has not been on tv for years and I have longed to see it again.
The only part of the film I remember well is one that haunts me,the OSS men (American Special Forces to you non World War buffs) are captured by the Fascist army,along with the Americans are Italian Royal,that is pro allied San Marco marines.
(Italy had changed sides in 1943 but Mussolini escaped jail with the help of German papratroopers and set up a crazy fascist state in the north of Italy,even madder than the first fascist state,so there was a situation where Italian fought Italian)

The fascist soldiers murder the non fascist Italian marines by drowning them,an American officer pleads that the men are legal soldiers of the Italian state,but of course the fascists do not recognise the men as Italian patriots worthy of decent treatment.
It is easy to attack this film for its crude method of filming and its use of non professional actors but it sums up a time in history which is easily forgotten,we often hear about world war 11 but the role of the OSS/SOE and the role of the partisans and the Royal Italian army after 1943 .
Such an interesting and exciting film could be made about the partisans but would anyone agree that there are no great films on this subject?