truerock74

This may not be the worst movie I have ever seen, but it's in the bottom ten. The writing was dreadful -- most of the movie is structured to keep the plot a secret from the audience -- and the acting was amateurish (with the exception of co-writer Cliff Robertson, who almost managed to make his words sound semi-plausible). What can I say about Michelle Maryk's acting that hasn't already been said? To say she was "wooden" would be understating the case. She sounded as if she were a non-English speaker taught the script phonetically with no particular idea what any of the words meant. "Benson" (Guillaume) makes an appearance (and he's not as terrible as many of the actors, but is bad enough).

All in all, I have to say that there are many movies I would recommend as B-grade horror films before this one . . . in fact, I would recommend a test pattern before I would this movie.

Yes, the production values are lacking. Yes, there are abundant plot holes -- however, for a Poverty Row war movie from the 1940s, the movie is actually not half bad. While there are numerous shots of stock footage and people walking in to poorly painted curtains doubling for the winter-bound grandeur that is Norway, the acting is better than one would expect in a movie of the genre. The writing seems to be a half-tick better than the average fare of the time and genre. The fellow playing the Nazi commander isn't the normal "one note" evil Nazi so often seen both then and later in such movies. The fellow playing the chief commando on the raid is fairly effective, if not entirely believable in the part.

All in all, I recommend it for those who are World War II buffs and have 70 minutes to kill.