Korean War "actioner" has a group of Marine misfits yanked out of a military prison and sent on a mission behind enemy lines and running into a group of teenage female Korean orphans and their escort, an American nun. Bearing only the slightest resemblance to the far better "Dirty Dozen" made five years later, this muddled, cheaply made, poorly acted programmer has little to recommend it. Performances range from good (Leo Gordon does his usual fine job of villainy) to somewhat adequate (star Robert Webber, a usually good character actor but who can't carry the picture) to strained (Anna Sten, in her final film) to embarrassing (pretty much everybody else in the picture), all of whom are forced to recite contrived, insipid dialog. The few action scenes are poorly staged and unconvincing, and there's an uncomfortable scene in which the members of the squad get their hands on some liquor and have a drunken party with the young--VERY young--Korean girls, which ends up with the drunken girls slinking around and dancing quite suggestively and the horny GIs eying them lustily. Considering the fact that the girls appear to be no older than 14 or 15, it's in extremely poor taste, to say the least, and I'm actually surprised it didn't get cut from the picture.
All in all, this is a tired, slow-moving mess. Don't waste your time.
