Desert Commandos

Desert Commandos
Italian film poster
Attentato ai tre grandi
Directed byUmberto Lenzi
Screenplay byUmberto Lenzi[1]
Story byUmberto Lenzi[1]
Produced byAlberto Grimaldi
Starring
CinematographyCarlo Carlini[1]
Edited byEugenio Alabiso[1]
Music byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino[1]
Production
companies
  • PEA
  • Constantin Film
  • Films Ege[1]
Distributed byPEA
Constantin Film
Release dates
1 December 1967 (Italy)
  • 15 March 1968 (1968-03-15) (West Germany)
Running time
96 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
  • West Germany[1]
LanguageItalian

Desert Commandos (Italian: Attentato ai tre grandi) is a 1967 French/Italian/West German international co-production war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed. The Italian title (Attack on the Big Three) refers to a German commando group with a mission to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference.

The film is a character-based drama that focuses on the German soldiers' various drives and conflicts during encounters with Tuareg nomads, and French and American soldiers.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cowie & Elley 1977, p. 300.