The Allied Plan.


So their plan was to let them get to the hotel all along, despite knowing everything about the commandos and the German spies? Why would they ever do that?


"No man is just a number"

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Really? I know this film is by no means a blockbuster or cult classic, but not a single post in 5 years? It is really that obscure? It's popped on Mill Creek's (and other budget labels) public domain multi-film releases in the past several years. I figured SOMEONE would be discussing it.

Anyway yea I agree; the plot is entirely too contrived. The girl who was playing along as their contact they meet in the desert (which in and of itself is silly) would have killed them the first chance she got. I'm all for suspension of disbelief and a writer using all the tricks in the bag to engage an audience but I spent the entire final act asking why anybody would allow them to go that far with the mission. Pretty ridiculous the Allies would be fully aware and not simply wipe out such a small force who was left pretty vulnerable at times.

But this movie's strength was clearly the highly intriguing complex characters (taking that cue from spaghetti westerns). And you've got to give them credit because very few war films up to that point were character studies - especially low cost Euro imports that catered to the B movie/drive-in crowd.

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