"In Enemy Country" is a Wartime movie in which some secret agents on their impossible mission to steal the most devastating weapon of World War II while attempting to destroy a Nazi installation .This passable picture packs fine stars , intrigue , action packed , suspense and impressive battles . Relaxed entertainment for war films fans dealing with a espionage tale stars Denise Marchois (Anjanette Comer), a secret agent who before the war married a German Baron (Paul Hubschmid) in order to provide herself with security whilst she carried on spying . It deals with a trio (Anthony Franciosa , Guy Stockwell, Tom Bell) of Allied agents are assigned by high command to a extremely dangerous assignment : They have to take a deadly new type of torpedo hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France . Col. Charles Waslow-Carton (Tony Franciosa) and Lt. Col. Philip Braden (Guy Stockwell) are picked for a perilous mission which requires them to pose as prisoners of war in order to get behind enemy lines and attempting to infiltrate the Nazi rockets site . After the initial set-up , much of the tale takes place in occupied France and in a forced labour camp . Their mission is complicated by appearing one traitor , several dangers and Denise finds her feelings for the Baron beginning to conflict things . Events go wrong when the prisoner of war camp is bombed and the men have to dodge flames and explosions to escape.
Exciting WWII military thriller about some undercover soldiers are on a risked mission , the three must work together to destroy a new type of torpedo which the enemy have been working on in a secret location in France , including a moving final and overwhelming pyrotechnics . It is an acceptable warfare film about spies masquerading as prisoners of war with spectacular scenes of action and drama , but if you watch hoping for anything more than just routine action and heroics you are going to end up disappointed . There's a thrilling developing but it's more a espionage story than the typical ¨gung-ho¨ wartime flick. The main focus is placed on these hero soldiers risking their necks to destroy a torpedo as well as the underlying storyline of Denise having been undercover for years , having fallen in love with the Baron who she married and felt betrayed . Usual setting made to utilise the redundant ¨Universal International¨adventure scenarios and from another prisoner of war film. Thrilling war film in which there are nail-biting action scenes , drama , intrigue , explosion , suspenseful set pieces and almost overloaded with stars . The movie gets a simple emotional appeal , professionalism and being rightly shot , though mediocre . Breathtaking as well as evocative musical score by William Lava . Atmospheric production design and nice special effects , but lots of stock footage about the planes bombing the Nazi installations . This blazing WWII yarn was made at the time the Sixties when the Wartime genre was in maxim splendor and pulled the public into cinemas in droves as they were released . One of the main entertainments of this so-so picture is to discover the list of notorious secondaries appearing here and there that include the following ones : Tom Bell , Michael Constantine , Harry Townes , Lee Bergere, John Marley , Milton Selzer, Patric Knowles , Harry Landers , among others.
The motion picture was regularly directed by Harry Keller . Harry worked at Republic Pictures , specializing in westerns , where he shot a lot , such as : Phantom Stallion ,Red River Shore ,Paso Stampede , Bandits of the West , Savage Frontier , Marshal of Cedar Rock , Thundering Caravans , Black Hills Ambush , Rose Cimarron , Fort Dodge , Stampede , Desert of lost men , Tarnished and most of them starred by Allan Lane and Rex Allen . When that studio folded he went to Universal, directing westerns again : Quantez , Gundown at Sandoval , 6 Black Horses , interspersed with some dramas/thrillers : Step Down to Terror , Man Afraid , Voice in the mirror , Female Animal , comedies : Tammy and the Doctor and war pictures : In Enemy Country. In the late 1960s he stopped directing films and started producing them, although he did keep his hand in directing TV shows. Keller gained some degree of fame as the director called in by Universal to reshoot scenes from Orson Welles' masterpiece Touch of evil (1958), and by most accounts -including Welles'- matched Welles' style quite well . Rating In Enemy Country (1968) : 5/10 .
