As the Allies are preparing the D-Day invasion, an American bomber pilot (Paul Massie) is recruited to be sent to occupied France to kill a member of the Resistance (Leslie French) who is suspected of supplying the names of fighters to the Germans. Each part of the film, the recruiting, training and the mission itself, is expertly done. There is expert drama in both his recruitment and training under James Robertson Justice, whose expertise in these matters is brilliantly portrayed. The film shows the excellent acting of Eddie Albert who plays an American officer who monitors Massie's training and then his deployment on a night flight to be parachuted into occupied France, where he is to be on his own except for his one contact played by Irene Worth, whose part turns out to be the best one in the film. The title pretty much sums up the dilemma that faces Massie as he's the one ordered to carry out the execution.
Review of Orders to Kill
