Attentato ai tre grandi

Attentato ai tre grandi
File:Descompos.jpg 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) 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.

Cast

• Ken Clark: Captain Fritz Schoeller
• Horst Frank: Lt. Roland Wolf
• Jeanne Valérie: Faddja Hassen
• Carlo Hinterman: Sgt. Erich Huber
• Howard Ross: Willy Mainz
• Franco Fantasia: Major Dalio
• Hardy Reichelt: Corporal Hans Ludwig
• Fabienne Dali: Simone
• John Stacy: Sir Bryan
• Tom Felleghy: Colonel Ross
• Gianni Rizzo: Perrier

External links

• Attentato ai tre grandi at IMDb
• Sgt.Slaughter's Desert Commandos review