Warner Bros.
Directed by Peter Duffell
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
James Mason is a Nazi who entices one of his old POW's, Telly Savalas, to help him looked for buried gold. Savalas looks up old friend Robert Culp in Amsterdam and convinces him to help. They have to come up with a plan to get another Nazi out of a heavily guarded Berlin prison, then convince him to tell them the whereabouts of the gold. They manage to do just that, with an elaborate ruse to convince him that Adolf Hitler is alive and well. Next, they have to recover the gold, which is buried in concrete beneath an apartment building in East Germany. Russian and American military types get in the way. Elaborate heist film might have worked if not for the miscasting, Mason is unconvincing as a Nazi, Culp is just too laid back as a crook, and Savalas is just, well Savalas, he is the same character in every movie.
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