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Attack Force Normandy


Attack Force Normandy - 1968

This is a film I had wanted for some time, as it is set in Normandy. Upon buying and watching it, I was a little disappointed, but not surprised to find out the film is pretty damn awful. The worst part is watching a fine actor like Michael Rennie star of such classics as Dangeroue Moonlight, The Day the Earth Stood Still and King of the Khyber Rifles reduced to appearing in this Euro-garbage for a few bucks. Add to that the preposterous plot, and you have a sure fire terrible movie. But like the fine line between genius and madman, the line between turkey and classic is also a fine one. This film is SOOOO bad it becomes cringeworthily watchable, in a “how much worse can this get” sort of way. Ignoring for a moment the crass acting and dubbing it’s the plot that is just totally absurd. A Commando team have to go into Normandy 3 days prior to D-Day to silence a radar station. Nothing wrong with that of course, there were indeed a few raids of that nature prior to D-Day occurring just minutes before the first landings. But this mob of “dirty dozen” wannabees not only kill half the German defenders of France (Germans literally launch themselves into our heroes bullets, and are always unable to return fire effectively), they destroy tanks and vehicles as well. Talk about giving the game away!!!!!

And now a few words about authenticity – basically there is none. The German uniforms are bog-standard costume hire efforts, no worse or better than in a hundred other films, but the Americans!!!!! Post war USAAF blue uniforms, M67 Jeeps, Beretta sub machine guns. NATO FN FAL rifles etc etc. Awful Italian/NATO webbing and miscellaneous surplus rubbish, topped off with American tin pots.

Add to this mélange a Resistance girl with ripped clothes so we get to see her thighs and cleavage, I mean surely in occupied France the girl could have got a new outfit! Some crazy kids in the playground shoot-em-ups and bad editing and a turkey is born.

The film ending ups the tempo a little and as our heroes die one by one we witness a blatant Dirty Dozen ripoff as a halftrack attacks the chateau, and the Commandos have to blow it up before escaping, or not, as the case may be. As I say it is so bad it actually makes you want to sit through it.
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