/war film
about a group of World War II
soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G. Hutton
, who also directed the 1968 World War II drama Where Eagles Dare
, the film stars Clint Eastwood
, Donald Sutherland
, Telly Savalas
, Don Rickles
, and Carroll O'Connor
, with lesser roles played by Harry Dean Stanton
, Gavin MacLeod
, and Stuart Margolin
. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin
.
In World War II France in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy when one of the division's platoons receives orders to pull out while under attack from the Germans (much to the dismay of the men, who are eager to get into Nancy in order to find a decent place to get some rest).
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