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Can honestly say it's one of the top five World War II movies I have even seen and also Gregory Peck's No. 2 film, behind To Kill A Mockingbird. It's not only the action that's fabulous, but the tension among the Allied commandos that keeps us on the edge of our seats. The best scene has Peck chewing out David Niven for giving him all this flak about leaving Anthony Quayle behind, and exhorting Peck to shoot Gia Scala after finding out she's the traitor among them. It's sad that only two main cast members are still alive -- Irene Papas and James Darren. But I don't doubt that Greg, David, Tony, Anthony Quayle, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris, Stanley Baker and that German officer who later played Russian generals in James Bond movies (Walter Gotell) are putting on a remake in that great movie studio in the sky. Justice has a good bit part as Commander Jensen, the man who sent them on that suicidal mission and so deadpanly told Gregory Peck he'd have to put off his vacation. Justice, famous for looking like Henry VIII, looks like an old publisher I wrote for. Acted like him, too. This is a movie you can take the kids to; there's no foul language and no graphic violence. While I wouldn't like those qualities in a war movie that was made today -- highly unrealistic -- this movie is too good otherwise to be critical of that. A must-see.
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