Directed by Robert Aldrich
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Six men, all former German soldiers, take a job defusing bombs in the crumbled remains of Berlin. They make a bet that they can last 3 months without getting killed, but it is easy to guess that it will come down to the last two. Jack Palance and Jeff Chandler are at ideological, and personal, odds with each other. One is a selfish bore, the other an idealist who would risk his life to save the other men. A large British bomb, with a tricky defusing, will test their commitment to those ideals. At its best in the bomb scenes, but the romantic melodrama with a French girl is tiresome and the occasional narration unnecessary.
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