73 minutes
6/16/1961
According to the officer's handbook, 'an officer will perform whatever task confronts him with whatever men are available' and for Major Bell the men in question are drunks, thieves and deserters. With the German army closing in on his company's position, Major Bell undertakes a suicidal mission to blow up a bridge of strategic importance to the enemy. His only help will come in the form of a rag-tag band of army rejects who must become heroes if they are to fulfil their mission and come back alive.
Dermot Walsh
as Major Roy Bell
Anton Rodgers
as Private Donald Conyers
Patrick McAlinney
as Private Timothy Reilly
Hugh David
as Private Walter Hoyt
Brian Peck
as Private Bernard White
Max Butterfield
as Private Anthony Burton
Richard Carpenter
as Private Frederick Burton
Sheila Whittingham
as Josette
John Scott
as Colonel Moreton
Maurice Kaufmann
as Private Thomas Mason