Churchill's Leopards (1970)
"I Leopardi di Churchill" (original title)

Director:

Maurizio Pradeaux

Writers:

Federico De Urrutia, Arpad DeRiso,

Stars:

Richard Harrison, Pilar Velázquez, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Harrison	...	Lt. Richard Benson / Lt. Hans Müller
Pilar Velázquez	...	Elise
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart	...	Major Powell
Frank Braña	...	François Leduc
Angela Covello
Helga Liné	...	Marlene Schulman
Claudio Biava
Massimo Righi	...	(as Max Dean)
Antonio Casas	...	La Tulipe
Klaus Kinski	...	Captain Holtz
Herb Andress	...	German officer (as Herbert Andress)
Giovanni De Angelis
Sergio Doria
Bruno Erba
Augusto Funari

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

france | world war two | ss officer | nazi | identical twins | 

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Genres:

Action | Thriller | War

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Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

14 August 1970 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Churchill's Leopards

Filming Locations:

Estudios Ballesteros, Madrid, Spain

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 9,259,256 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aitor Films, SAP Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Goofs

The model of the dam shown to Maj. Powell at the beginning of the film looks nothing like the dam that is blown up during the climax.

User Reviews

Routine movie featuring the great Kinski

A routine Italian low budget war action movie about English dam busters working in occupied France. Best feature in the film is, obviously, the great Klaus Kinski whose SS captain brings a sinister edge to the final battle.

All in all an interesting film that suffers from the same problem than most of its peers: lack of ambition. The only scene that stands out is the execution of the resistance leader (by Kinski's SS men), which makes one wonder why the rest of the film wasn't made with similar effort.