Below average Macaroni combat movie with noisy action , embarrassing action scenes , short budget and lousy direction . During WWII, two officers Captain Richard Howell (Anton Diffring) and Lieutenant Morris (Carl Parker) are really confronted , that's why the Howell's wife (Pamela Tudor) fell in love with Morris . But both of whom are assigned to a dangerous mission, it results to be no less : to kill Rommel . Along the way British and German soldiers chasing each other around the deserts of Northern Africa . And an enemy soldier is captured by the British commando , but then things go wrong.
Anton Driffing as Capt. Richard Howelly assumes the character of commando leader along with the unknown Carl Parker as Lt. George Morris in this ordinary wartime movie regularly helmed by Al Bradley . Driffing is the leader in this mediocre wartime movie about a commando goes in action , shot in low budget . Being a ridiculous European war film that lost continuity with US cuts . This moving film packs frantic thrills , perilous adventures , relentless feats , and buck-loads of explosive action and violence . The noisy action is uniformly regularly made , with rip-roaring final scenes in which the motley group is really besieged and some tanks shooting here and there , including some spectacular shootouts , bombing and along the way a plane attacking them . The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop a complex and tense relationship due to jealousy and competition among them . The final part is all action , as the brave commando wreak havoc and then run for their lives . Rough Anton Driffing who played a lot of Nazi roles ; however, here he's nice as aleader of the motley pack to a perilous trek through the Egyptian desert , as well as a secondary cast with slightly known faces , such as : Pamela Tudor , Renato Romano, Tom Felleghi , Castellano , Vittorio Richelmy , John Bartha , all of them performed in multiple Italian films and mostly playing brief interventions . Atmospheric and functional musical score by Coroliano Gori , displaying a catching leitmotif . Faded cinematography in Eastmancolor filmed by Franco Villa on location in Egypt , being necessary an urgent remastering because the film copy is washed out . This one belongs to a numerous group of Italian/Spanish WWII films , these types of B-war films have never enjoyed enormous popularity in Italy because they were made mostly just to make money , especially with foreign distribution in poor countries and little conviction on the part of the producers. These were films made in De Paolis (Rome), Lacio, Italy , Morocco, Libya , the Egyptian desert or Almeria , Spain. These movies follow the American style and usually directed by José Luis Merino , Leon Klimovsky , Umberto Lenzi , Roberto Montero, Bitto Albertini , Al Bradley and including tarnishing Hollywood stars , such as ¨The legion of no return¨ with Tab Hunter , ¨Desert Commandos¨ with Ken Clark , ¨Hell's brigade¨ with Jack Palance , ¨Eagles over London¨ with Van Johnson , ¨Battle of Alaimen¨ with Michael Rennie , ¨Hell in Normandy¨ with Guy Madison , ¨Command attack¨ with Michael Rennie , ¨Commando¨ with Lee Van Cleef , ¨Casablanca Express¨ with Glenn Ford. All of them supported by local armies that lent tanks , weapons , soldiers and extras to make these films . The typical team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian and Spanish actors and sometimes German and French, sometimes a fading Hollywood star. This is a wartime typical vehicle and into the ¨warlike commando sub-genre¨ , in USA style which also belong the American classics , such as : ¨Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)¨ ,¨ Where eagles dare (Brian G. Hutton)¨ , ¨Kelly's heroes (Hutton)¨, Navarone Guns (J. L. Thompson) , ¨Tobruk (Arthur Hiller)¨ , ¨Devil's Brigade (Andrew V McLagen)¨ and many others.
The film was middlingly directed by Alfonso Brescia or Al Bradley . He made all kind of genres , starting directing muscle-men epics as "The Conqueror of Atlantis" , ¨The magnificent gladiator¨, ¨La Rivolta dei Pretoriani¨. After that , he continued with Spaghetti Western as ¨Winchester Bill¨ , ¨Ley Del Colt¨ , ¨I Giorni Della Violenza¨ ; Adventure as ¨Zanna Bianca¨, ¨Amazons against Supermen¨ ; Scifi Movies as ¨War of the Planets¨ (1977) and ¨War of the Robots¨ (1978), and warlike movies as ¨Objetivo Rommel¨ , ¨Misiones Ardientes¨ and ¨Hell in Normandy¨. Rating : Very average but entertaining .Rating : 4.5/10 .
