Columbia Pictures
Directed by Jose Ferrer
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)
Uneasy mix of British-style humor and a secret military mission into France during WWII. The first half or so of the film shows a group of rag-tag soldiers being trained for their mission: a canoe trip up the Seine to blow up some Nazi ships. The training scenes are played mostly for laughs, a typical scene shows them running half-naked through the local town in swimming trunks trying to get a bomb safely in the harbor. It's not a bit funny. The military mission is marginally more entertaining, but some particularly obvious model-work for the big explosions takes you right out of the film.
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