Attentato ai tre grandi

Desert Commandos

Original film poster
Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Produced by Alberto Grimaldi
Written by Umberto Lenzi
Starring Ken Clark
Horst Frank
Music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Release dates
1 September 1967
Running time
96 minutes

Attentato ai tre grandi (Attack on the Big Three), also known as Desert Commandos, is a 1967 international co-production made by Italy, Germany and France Macaroni Combat war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed. 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.

The film was released as Les Chiens verts du désert (The Green Desert Dogs) in France, as Fünf gegen Casablanca (Five Against Casablanca) in Germany and as Desert Commandos in the USA. Some commenters consider the film to be Umberto Lenzi's best and have remarked the film is notable for having Germans as the heroes and with mixed multi-dimensional characters.[1]

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