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1 April 1965 (USA)
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Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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“Nazis. I hate these guys.”: 15 WWII Movies Worth Watching Before You See Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
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(From FilmJunk. 26 May 2009, 4:10 PM, PDT)
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How the German V1 & 2 rockets where dealt with.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sophia Loren | ... | Nora | |
| George Peppard | ... | Lt. John Curtis | |
| Trevor Howard | ... | Professor Lindemann | |
| John Mills | ... | General Boyd | |
| Richard Johnson | ... | Duncan Sandys | |
| Tom Courtenay | ... | Robert Henshaw | |
| Jeremy Kemp | ... | Phil Bradley | |
| Anthony Quayle | ... | Bamford | |
| Lilli Palmer | ... | Frieda | |
| Paul Henreid | ... | General Ziemann | |
| Helmut Dantine | ... | General Linz | |
| Barbara Rütting | ... | Hannah Reitsch (as Barbara Rueting) | |
| Richard Todd | ... | Wing Cmdr. Kendall | |
| Sylvia Syms | ... | Constance Babington Smith | |
| John Fraser | ... | Flight Lt. Kenny |
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Rated PG-13 for some war violence.
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115 min
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Black and White (archive footage) |
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
Mono (35 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Iceland:12 |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
Argentina:16 |
USA:PG-13 |
UK:PG (video rating) |
UK:A (original rating)
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Despite receiving top billing, Sophia Loren only appears in a extended cameo role. Producer Carlo Ponti, Loren's husband, believed his wife's popularity in the United States would boost the film's chances at the box office and had her billed accordingly.
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Continuity: When Phil Bradley is interviewed for undercover work, he shows off his fluent German. Then, he is given a phony French identity and assigned to Belgium.
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Edited into Damnation Alley (1977)
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Excellent suspense movie. This one probably "disappeared among the "Guns of Navarone" imitators during the 60's. A pity, since it is worth having a look at. Some points in its favour: "Unpredictable" - characters who usually don't die in movies like this dies unexpectedly and in unexpected order (it doesn't follow the clichés). The spies sent on undercover missions into Germany are actually forced to speak German, and various ruses to cover up the accents have to be made. One negative aside though. At times it seems that two movies are being shown at the same time, a docu-drama about the actual bombings of England and a totally fictitious (albeit exciting) spy drama.