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company: Films Concorde
year: 1978
runtime: 99′
director: Enzo G. Castellari
cast: Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson,
Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolani
disc company: Severin Films
release date: July 28, 2009
retail price: $34.95
disc info: Region Free / Dual Layer BD50
video: 1080p / color / 1.83:1
subtitles: English [incidental dialogue only]
audio: English [Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0]
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A motley band of five Allied soldiers on their way to court martials and executions for a variety of offenses (from killing fellow officers to desertion to using military property to conduct a long distance relationship) are loosed into Nazi-occupied France circa 1944 after their convoy is ambushed. With certain death facing them from either side the group decides to head for neutral Switzerland until the war is over. But they get into things way over their heads when they accidentally kill a bunch of Allies on a top-secret mission to confiscate the experimental guidance system for a new V2 rocket…
I wasn’t overly infatuated with this Enzo G. Castellari (High Crime, The Last Shark) actioner when I first saw it [courtesy of Severin Films' 3 disc DVD release from last year], but I have to admit that it has grown on me since. As far as pulp escapisms about cadres of no-good punks leaving their bullet-riddled marks on fascist occupational forces go, it actually works quite well.
