Secret mission Dubrovnik
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Secret mission Dubrovnik |
| Original title | The Secret Invasion |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Corman |
| script | R. Wright Campbell |
| production | Gene Corman |
| music | Hugo Friedhofer |
| camera | Arthur E. Arling |
| cut | Ronald Sinclair |
| occupation | |
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Secret Mission Dubrovnik is a war film by Roger Corman , which he directed on location in Yugoslavia in 1963 during the Edgar Allen Poe filming phase. At the center of the 1943 story are five serious criminals who are chosen by the British secret service to take part in a special detachment against the Germans. Freedom awaits her as a reward. The main roles are played by Stewart Granger , Raf Vallone and Mickey Rooney .
action
Second World War in the Mediterranean. In 1943, Italy changed sides under Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio and left the alliance with Hitler's Germany. As a result, the Italian General Quadri , who is currently stationed in the German-occupied Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, is arrested by the former ally and imprisoned in the fortress there. The British secret service shows great interest in the liberation of the high-ranking Italian officer, who will then lead the Italian troops against the former alliance partners, the Germans, and is therefore planning to liberate him. For this suicide mission, very special fighters are to be recruited who on the one hand have nothing to lose, on the other hand are known for literally walking over dead bodies. At the British base in Cairo, Major Richard Maze is tasked with setting up an appropriate commando and selecting the most daring scoundrels in his Majesty's service for this dangerous mission.
The major soon finds what he is looking for and selects five convicts sentenced to death for the special command. In return for their participation in the suicide mission, the cutthroats are promised their freedom should they survive the mission. The "dirty quintet" consists of the criminal genius Roberto Rocca, the demolition expert and IRA member Terence Scanlon, the professional forger Simon Fell, the cold-blooded murderer John Durrell and the thief and voice imitator Jean Saval. This assignment has a special meaning for Major Mace as well, as he tries to overcome his own feelings of guilt. Once he had sent his brother on a dangerous mission and waited too long to get him out of the predicament he had gotten into.
Even the journey to Dubrovnik is suboptimal: The six-person team transported in a fishing boat is brought in by a German patrol boat, but Mace's people can eliminate the enemy after a short fight. With the help of the local partisan unit, led by a certain Marko, the men prepare the attack on the German fortress, then they split up on land. The local, recently widowed Mila, mother of a baby, is assigned to the murderer John Durrell in order to avoid attracting attention on the spot and to find orientation more easily. The drama takes its course when Durrell accidentally suffocates her toddler because it began to scream when a German patrol was marching by nearby. The mission threatens to fail once and for all when Mace and his people fall into the hands of the Germans and are also brought to the fortress, which is already home to Generale Quadri.
In a strict interrogation one tries to find out from the daring warriors what exactly their mission is. Everyone stands firm and can ultimately flee. They succeed in freeing the general, but the fighters soon have to fight back against a German superior force, in which Major Mace as well as Mila, Fell, Scanlon and Saval perish. The surviving Rocca and Durrell have to realize, however, that the mission was doomed to failure from the start: The Italian to be liberated is not a general and has no intention of changing sides. Durrell then pretends to be a fanatical National Socialist and shoots the wrong general, whereupon he himself is massacred by the Quadri supporters among the Italians. The Italian Rocca, the last survivor of the murderous mission, then tries to save what can be saved and directs the excessive anger of the Italians on the Germans ruling in Dubrovnik, because they, in the form of the false Nazi Durrell, have just killed their revered general Quadri .
Production notes
Secret Mission Dubrovnik was filmed in and around Dubrovnik in 1963 under the working title The Dubious Patriots and premiered in New York on September 16, 1964. The German premiere was on April 30, 1965.
useful information
The German Helmo Kindermann , who was brought in recent years repeatedly by foreign film producers for the presentation cliché laden Wehrmacht officers who graduated from here and where almost simultaneously rotated War strips of train his last movie appearances. Tired of the eternal portrayals of dashing Nazi officers, he then refused to continue to take on such parts and concentrated entirely on synchronizing. Kindermann never appeared in front of the camera again.
Secret Mission Dubrovnik served as the blueprint for a variation on the same theme, The Dirty Dozen , in 1966 . This war strip was, unlike Corman's moderate production, an enormous box office and audience success.
In April 2020, the age rating was reduced from 18 to 16 years after a re-examination by the FSK.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Major Richard Mace | Stewart Granger | Curt Ackermann |
| Rocca | Raf Vallone | Helmut Wildt |
| Scanlon | Mickey Rooney | Gerd Duwner |
| John Durrell | Henry Silva | Herbert Stass |
| Simon Fell | Edd Byrnes | Arne Elsholtz |
| Saval | William Campbell | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Fortress commander | Helmo Kindermann | he himself |
| German captain | Helmuth Schneider | Jürgen Thormann |
Reviews
Halliwell's Film Guide found the film was a cheap version of The Dirty Dozen , yet "pretty well done and exciting".
The Movie & Video Guide praised the “good action and on-site photography”.
The film service says: "Action-packed, very carefree war rumors."
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also Kay Less : Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Volume 4, p. 383 (entry Kindermann). Berlin 2001
- ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7456
- ^ Secret mission Dubrovnik in the German dubbing files
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 894
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1149
- ↑ Secret Mission Dubrovnik. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Geheimauftrag Dubrovnik in the Internet Movie Database (English)