5/10
The Werewolves are coming the Werewolves are coming
11 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** The film in its opening credits "First Introduces" actor Charles Bronson as GI Steve Bpland to the movie going audience ignoring the fact that Bronson has already been in the movies and on TV with at least some 50 credits under his belt-According to the IMDb-since 1951! Brosnson or Steve Boland plays a just drafted into the US Army, to prevent him from serving time for for illegal bookmaking, right after the the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor who in fact continues his bookmaking and ends up in the brig for it right up until almost the end of the war! It's in the final days of WWII in Europe that he finally sees the light by risking his life to prevent a number of Nazi guerrillas or Werewolves from knocking off the Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Eisenhower. That's to be carried out in an ambush that PVT. Boland's German girlfriend Ilsa's, Violet Rensing, fanatical Nazi brother Karl,Richard Jeackel, and equally crazy, about preserving Hitler's 3rd Reich, friend Ludwig, Arvid Nelson,are determined to carry out!

Up until then Boland has been a complete screw up as a member of the US Army landing in jail as well as on garbage or KP duty during his entire time servings, by digging ditches, his country. It's when he met Elsa as he says at the end of the film he found a reason for his very existence in life and that paid off by him preventing the Werewolves in changing the course, by knocking off Gen. Eisenhower, of the second World War! Most of the action takes place in WWII stock footage due to the films limited budget but the final scene with Boland taking out the Nazi Werewolves almost single handed was top notch as well as made the never sticking his neck out for anyone PVT Boland into a genuine hero.

***SPOILERS*** Sadly it was Ilsa who risks and gave her life by trying to alert the US unit that Gen. Eisenhower was with that it was about to be ambushed by her brother Karl and his fellow Werewolves and got shot, by Ludwig, in the back for it. Charles Bronson more or less played the same character in the movie that he played all throughout his career but added some humor into it as a bookie who never took anything seriously, even WWII, until the chips were down and then showed his true colors: Red White & Blue!
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