The Germans take a prisoner out in the woods to be executed.
A German officer ties the prisoner's arms behind him, around a tree.
When the prisoner is shot, he falls forward and away from the tree as if his arms were not bound.
At exactly 9 minutes and 14 seconds, you can clearly hear someone coughing on the set.
Another voice is heard coughing again 5 seconds later.
When Sergeant Hall arrives at Owens' room, he is wearing his helmet.
He would not to be wearing his helmet indoors in this venue, and should be wearing a forage cap (like the orderly who arrives alter) with his helmet attached to a bag containing his gas-mask.
The messenger who arrives at the hotel with the orders is a sergeant but Owens refers to him as 'Orderly'.
This term was only used for privates.
Owens should have referred to him as 'Sergeant'.
Three men are seen to leave the aircraft through the door, but the shot from underneath the plane shows four parachutists.
- PLOTThe German troops looking for the commandos in the forest fail to see their tracks despite the fact that they are walking in snow.
The commandos twice hide from a plane that it searching for them.
This plane is a DC-3/ C-47 with a British roundel.
The Germans did not fly this model of aircraft.
During the British attack and rescue, several real-life clips (showing ships at sea, explosions, etc) are shown twice.
This film is based on the British Commando raids on Norwegian ports (Operation Archery, Operation Anklet) that took place in December 1941. It uses footage from that operations newsreels.
This film stars a man well acquainted with B-movies, Lyle Talbot. He is cast as the head of a commando team that is to infiltrate Nazi-controlled Norway in order to rescue a beloved Norwegian general—a man who could then lead the Free Norwegian troops in the fight against the Axis.
A couple of twists make it worth watching; The Quisling surprisingly - unpredictably - Gives his life for Norway, and not, so typical of Hollywood, when the situation is forced on him.and- As mentioned by truerock74 , the Nazi isn't predictable.
You've really got to appreciate that this was made slap bang in the middle of WWII and so the budget was negligible, the time allocated probably even less - and so the end product is stagey with static backdrops; lots of War Office actuality and a very pedestrian script. All of that said, though, it is still quite a watchable tale of three commandos who are on mission to rescue a Norwegian general who has been captured by the Nazis.
Lyle Talbot leads a commando mission to occupied Norway to get a Norwegian general out of a POW camp. Opposing him is Victor Varconi as the local German Kommandant.
This is a war movie which is about occupied area.The surface plot of three Allied men on a mission in the occupied area to rescue a general is a smokescreen for the real story.
Lyle Talbot (as Robert "Bob" Owen) fights Nazis in Norway, during World War II. Helping him out are native son George N.
I should have seen this ambush coming, from the very first office/room whose walls were constructed out of curtains. This movie, amongst others, was required pre-school for mega-talents to come, eg Edward D Wood Jr.
Yes, the production values are lacking. Yes, there are abundant plot holes -- however, for a Poverty Row war movie from the 1940s, the movie is actually not half bad.
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