German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
Direction
Lenzi's kinetic eye elevates cheap sets into surprisingly tense sequences.
Cinematography
Actual desert locations look spectacular against the dubbing chaos.
Director
Umberto Lenzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenzi shot this back-to-back with 'The Cobra' (1967), recycling desert crews and probably sand.
Part of a weird 1960s subgenre where Italian cinema made Germans sympathetic anti-heroes, reflecting Cold War realignments more than WWII memory.
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