Strangely Sophia Loren often appears in some Euro-Spy-War-Thriller productions that end up in a failure as FIREPOWER, OPERATION CROSSBOW, although Loren get the top billing, nonetheless she was some kind of secondary role in those pictures, in this fictional story wrote by Frederick Nolan about a Nazi gold hidden in salt mine found by the allied near the end of WWII, thus General Patton demands a gold shipment be back at Frankfurt's Bank, meanwhile it was stolen on the tracks inside a tunnel, due it was an American operation, the Russians can safely assume that the own American officials ripped off the valuable cargo gold.
Patton (George Kennedy) is outrageous by such statement, then enforces a task force leading by Major Joe De Luca (John Cassavetes) aiming for find out the mastermind of such ashamed robbery, meanwhile the instigators Col. Douglas Roger (Robert Vaughn) and Mike McCauley (Patrick McGoohan) soon they hire a skilled hit man to killing Gen. Patton by codename Shelley (Max Von Sydow who else?) otherwise the cunning De Luca will reaches them, out of the blue a unexpected event coming to surface to baffled the audience, the enemy is more closest that they could realize.
By leveraging of Patton's death, the wiser writer aligns his fictional novel, really an absorbent spy-war-thriller, despite some mismatches concerning Patton, such offer could be looked as an inappropriate narrative, even fictional, clearly it may scratch the whole production upon an veritable sad event, it come out officially in Brazil in VHS format only, I have a DVD-r copy aired on TV cable, I've been prayed everyday for a DVD release soon, I saw a colorful photos where suggests it as restored feature, too much underrated.
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First watch: 1986 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD-R / Rating: 7.5.
Patton (George Kennedy) is outrageous by such statement, then enforces a task force leading by Major Joe De Luca (John Cassavetes) aiming for find out the mastermind of such ashamed robbery, meanwhile the instigators Col. Douglas Roger (Robert Vaughn) and Mike McCauley (Patrick McGoohan) soon they hire a skilled hit man to killing Gen. Patton by codename Shelley (Max Von Sydow who else?) otherwise the cunning De Luca will reaches them, out of the blue a unexpected event coming to surface to baffled the audience, the enemy is more closest that they could realize.
By leveraging of Patton's death, the wiser writer aligns his fictional novel, really an absorbent spy-war-thriller, despite some mismatches concerning Patton, such offer could be looked as an inappropriate narrative, even fictional, clearly it may scratch the whole production upon an veritable sad event, it come out officially in Brazil in VHS format only, I have a DVD-r copy aired on TV cable, I've been prayed everyday for a DVD release soon, I saw a colorful photos where suggests it as restored feature, too much underrated.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 1986 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD-R / Rating: 7.5.