The wartime operations carried out in the snow were probably the most uncomfortable in which to participate but were certainly the most photogenic.
Richard Harris's ascent had been rapid from a supporting role in 'The Guns of Navarone' (for which this plainly provided the template) to co-starring with Kirk Douglas (who rather blots his copybook by shooting an unarmed man) in 'The Heroes of Telemark', which proved the final film completed by Anthony Mann before his untimely death at the age of 61.
Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris make a highly unlikely pair of Norwegians in this yarn, for which Douglas and Mann had presumably buried the hatchet after Douglas had him fired from 'Spartacus'.
Like all the best war films of the fifties and sixties the music is by Malcolm Arnold and Anton Diffring plays a meanie in a peaked cap.
Richard Harris's ascent had been rapid from a supporting role in 'The Guns of Navarone' (for which this plainly provided the template) to co-starring with Kirk Douglas (who rather blots his copybook by shooting an unarmed man) in 'The Heroes of Telemark', which proved the final film completed by Anthony Mann before his untimely death at the age of 61.
Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris make a highly unlikely pair of Norwegians in this yarn, for which Douglas and Mann had presumably buried the hatchet after Douglas had him fired from 'Spartacus'.
Like all the best war films of the fifties and sixties the music is by Malcolm Arnold and Anton Diffring plays a meanie in a peaked cap.