An American Army tank unit is trapped in a small French town in the Ardennes unaware that a spy amongst them is providing the German counterattack with vital battle information.
Practical Effects
Real tanks! Actual Ardennes locations! Budget went HERE.
Acting
Baby Burt Reynolds trying so hard in his first real role.
Costume
Tina Louise's suspiciously glamorous French Resistance fits.
Director
Byron Haskin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burt Reynolds later called this 'the picture where I learned to never take the role of the guy who dies second.'
Released the same year as 'The Guns of Navarone,' this was Allied Artists' cheapo answer to prestige WWII epics—note the similar poster font desperation.
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