The Secret Invasion

The Secret Invasion

The Secret Invasion
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Actor: Edward Byrnes, Enzo Fiermonte, Helmo Kinderman, Peter Coe, Stewart Granger
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Arthur E. Arling
Composer: Hugo W. Friedhofer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United Artists

Movie Reviews of The Secret Invasion

Movie Review: GREAT ACTION MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been looking for this movie for a long time. It a good story line with great actors.

Summary of The Secret Invasion

The story of British Intelligence using criminals to work behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia during World War II.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/CLASSICS Rating:?NR UPC:?883904106418 Manufacturer No:?M110641
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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