Churchill's Leopards is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 Italian

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

"macaroni combat

Euro War

Macaroni Combat, also known as Macaroni War or Euro War films, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of war film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by European co-productions notably Italians....

" war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and starring Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison (actor)

Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...

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Plot

A German SS officer (Klaus Kinski) suspects that an officer (Richard Harrison) in command of a dam may not be the loyal Nazi he claims to be. In fact he is a British officer whose mission is to assist commandos in the destruction of the dam before D-Day.

Cast

• Richard Harrison
  Richard Harrison (actor)
  Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...
  
   - Lt. Richard Benson / Lt. Hans Müller
• Pilar Velázquez - Elise
• Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
  Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
  Giacomo Rossi-Stuart was an Italian film actor often credited as Jack Stuart. He appeared in over 80 films between 1953 and 1989.He was born in Todi, Italy and died in Rome, Italy....
  
   - Major Powell
• Frank Braña
  Frank Braña
  Frank Braña is a Spanish film actor.Also credited as Frank Blank, Francisco Brana, Frank Brana, Frank Branya, Francisco Braña or Paco Braña, his career has been mostly based in Spanish and Italian movies of the spaghetti-western, horror and sword and sandal genres, having worked in more than 200...
  
   - François Leduc
• Angela Covello
• Helga Liné
  Helga Liné
  Helga Liné is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made 132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 2006, but most of her work has been in Spanish cinema.-Biography:Helga Line was born as Helga Lina Stern on...
  
   - Marlene Schulman
• Claudio Biava
• Massimo Righi (as Max Dean)
• Antonio Casas
  Antonio Casas
  Antonio Casas was a Spanish footballer turned film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982....
  
   - La Tulipe
• Klaus Kinski
  Klaus Kinski
  Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...
  
   - Captain Holtz
• Herb Andress
  Herb Andress
  Herb Andress was an Austrian film and television actor, known particularly for his roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Lili Marleen and the same director's TV series Acht Stunden sind kein Tag .Herb Andress later played in the television...
  
   - German officer (as Herbert Andress)
• Giovanni De Angelis
• Sergio Doria
• Bruno Erba
• Augusto Funari
• John Frederick
• Omero Gargano
• Franco Marletta
• Furio Pellerani
• Pelio Quaglia
• Goffredo Unger - (as Fredi Unger)

Releases

Wild East

Wild East

Wild East, or Wild East Productions Inc., is a New York-based DVD company that specializes in releasing limited editions of spaghetti westerns and other cult Italian and Spanish genre movies.-History:...

 released the film on a Limited Edition NTSC Region 0 DVD double feature with Salt in the Wound

Salt in the Wound

Salt in the Wound is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Tonino Ricci and starring Klaus Kinski and George Hilton.-Plot:...

in 2007.