Stewart Granger fled to Europe in the sixties, a decision that ultimately put the wind out of hs career, but this is a surprisingly enjoyable action movie. It's a guys on a mission tale, the mission being to capture a rebel leader in 1961 Algeria - the heros are French Foreign Legion.
This was a surprise for me. It's a tight action movie - I saw a crappy print but there's plenty of action, it's filmed on some sort of location, they attempt to have a cross section of soldiers (Dorian Gray as a hooker, there's a soldier who slept with a 14 year old girl,the rebel leader).
The ending is bleak but feels realistic - most of the team die, the guy they captured is released for political reasons.
It's absolutely one of Granger's better 60s movies.
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