Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
Practical Effects
Real Norwegian locations and actual WWII hardware on screen.
Acting
Henry Silva's thousand-yard stare could stop tanks.
Direction
Lucidi's claustrophobic underground climax is genuinely tense.
Director
Maurizio Lucidi
Henry Silva
Duke
Luigi Casellato
Carlo 'Charlie' Sardi
Riccardo Salvino
Hans Liedholm
Ezio Sancrotti
Captain Simon Schultz
Franco Giornelli
John McHarding
Vittorio André
Prof. Schwartz
Katia Christine
Kristy
Marco Guglielmi
Captain Kreuz
Renato De Carmine
Major Horst
Pietro Martellanza
Sam the Brit
Paolo Magalotti
Tall bearded OSS officer
Fulvio Mingozzi
British intelligence officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1960s 'spaghetti war' boom: Italian studios cranking out WWII action cheap and fast for global markets.
Henry Silva filmed this back-to-back with another Euro-war flick, barely changing costumes between productions.
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