Monday, September 22, 2014

Desert Commandos (1967)

  I got this as a double feature with a movie called Ransom Money from Rob, who got it for free.  Thank God nobody paid for it because it is a terrible movie.

A German commando unit is dropped into the Sahara Desert with orders to trek to Casablanca and infiltrate an Allied meeting in the hopes of assassinating Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.

Now, I'm not one of those who believes an entire population has the same viewpoints as the people in charge.  I'm fully aware there were German citizens who risked their lives in the Resistance because they did not support the Nazi agenda.  However, this is not a movie about that.  These are loyal soldiers out to do a mission to the best of their ability.  And it makes me curious who precisely the target audience was for this film.

It's an Italian production, which partially explains why the entire movie is poorly dubbed.  The worst part is that you can tell most of the characters were speaking English originally but either the sound quality sucked or they were unintelligible due to an accent.  At any rate, this is a terrible example of spaghetti film-making.

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