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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0883904106418
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 12867
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr
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Roger Corman's 1964 The Secret Invasion is a variation on the theme of misfits pooling dark skills to help defeat the Nazi menace in World War II. A fun drama with many of Corman's shoestring-budget trademarks (stock film footage, creative if not always careful use of lighting to match shots), The Secret Invasion stars a number of familiar faces with eclectic star power. Stewart Granger plays a British officer who builds a team out of a handful of skilled criminals freed from various prisons, with the purpose of sending them on a dangerous, undercover mission. (The Secret Invasion was released three years before the similar-sounding The Dirty Dozen.) Among his shady underlings is an expert forger (Edd Byrnes, never a hair out of place), a demolitions expert (Mickey Rooney in a somewhat annoying, too-sprightly performance as an Irish kook), a moody assassin (Henry Silva), an ace impersonator (William Campbell, brother of the film's writer, R. Wright Campbell), and the story's most charismatic figure, a renaissance genius who quickly becomes the team's chief strategist (Raf Vallone).
The group's intent is to rescue an Italian general from the Germans in a very charming, coastal town. The effort forces the reluctant good guys to sustain much brutality from the enemy, and watching while psychological pressures turn some of their more self-centered members into heroes while more damaged participants become doomstruck zombies. Corman juggles the particulars of an extended, chaotic fight scene in the film's final minutes, demonstrating his prowess with no-fuss action shooting and cutting. But it’s the film's air of tragedy and irony that ultimately lingers, wiping away any self-congratulatory cleverness from the impossible-mission plot. --Tom Keogh
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Three years before The Dirty Dozen was released, director Roger Corman made this movie, The Secret Invasion, dealing with a similar subject although with a much smaller budget. In Cairo in 1943, five men are brought together by British Major Richard Mace, each of them specialists in their field. The catch you ask? They're all convicts with sentences ranging from a few years to immediate execution. Mace has brought them together to help the Allied invasion of Italy by making the situation in ... Read More
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"The Secret Invasion" is one of Roger Corman's very best films. It has
an exciting story, colorful characters, and gorgeous location photography
in Dubrovnik, Croatia. One of the big pleasures is seeing how the five
criminal "experts" (and their British Army commander) each make a choice
to sacrifice for the mission, and thus for a free world. The formerly
selfish reprobates learn to care, and become genuine heroes. But in the
final view, there is really no ... Read More
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interesting flick made two years before dirty dozen. stewart granger, the leader, raf vallone, the brain, edd byrnes the forger, mickey rooney the bomber, william campbell the master of disguise, and in a multi textured role, henry silva the tortured assassin. if you forget about the tag that it's a low budget film made by the immortal roger corman, it's a pretty good film with an interesting ending, which proves even the most hardened criminal can find some redemption
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I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid at an Armed Forces movie theatre in Mannheim, Germany. Very entertaining. Less a forerunner of the DITY DOZEN as it is an imitation of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. Be nice to see it again for the first time in twenty or thirty years.
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I fully share Mr.Walter Goodseal's sentiments about this great film finally making it out of those Hollywood's possessive shelves. This great film features screen giants like Stewart Granger, Ralph Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Henry Silva, William Campbell, Spela Rozin and Enzo Fiermonte as the Italian General Quadri, to name a few of a great cast. As Fascist Italy is near collapse, this group of infiltrating allied commandoes is sent into Nazi occupied Yugoslavia to provoke an uprising of the Italian ... Read More
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