Continental Distributing
Directed by Thorold Dickinson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Soldiers on their way to defend a remote hill tell their backstories in a series of flashbacks. In the first, an Irish soldier in Israel falls in love with a Palestinian girl. They endure suspicious looks from neighbors, harassment from coworkers and the police but ultimately are forced apart by war. In the second, a small patrol unit is sent to the old part of Jerusalem to rescue people trapped in a hospital. They face overwhelming odds against superior Arab forces in control of the city. In the final segment, a soldier tries to help a wounded enemy by carrying him to a nearby cave for shelter, but when he finds out he is really a Nazi has second thoughts. Excellent recreations of locations and battles involved in the fight for Israel's independence, but the plot is episodic and the wraparound narrative, which gives away the ending in the first few minutes, is anticlimactic.
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