Hell in Normandy is a 1968 World War II film directed by Alfonso Brescia

Alfonso Brescia

Alfonso Brescia was an Italian film director of low budget films, sometimes credited as Al Bradley or Al Bradly. Film buffs mainly know him for the 4 low budget sci-fi films he hurriedly directed in 1977-78 to capitalize on the success of "Star Wars"...

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Plot

A squad of American paratrooper commandos led by Guy Madison

Guy Madison

Guy Madison was an American film and television actor.-Early life:Born Robert Ozell Moseley in Pumpkin Center, California, Madison attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the United States Coast Guard in...

 is dropped into France prior to the invasion of Normandy. Once in enemy territory, the squad meets up with a German double agent (Peter Lee Lawrence

Peter Lee Lawrence

Peter Lee Lawrence born Karl Hirenbach, , was a German actor. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dying at the age of 29....

) who helps them infiltrate a German flamethrower installation. The mission is to destroy the installation, which would threaten the Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II...

 landing, right before the invasion begins.

Cast

• Guy Madison
  Guy Madison
  Guy Madison was an American film and television actor.-Early life:Born Robert Ozell Moseley in Pumpkin Center, California, Madison attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the United States Coast Guard in...
  
  : Captain Jack Murphy
• Peter Lee Lawrence
  Peter Lee Lawrence
  Peter Lee Lawrence born Karl Hirenbach, , was a German actor. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dying at the age of 29....
  
  : Lt. Strobel
• Erika Blanc
  Erika Blanc
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  : Denise
• Philippe Hersent: Professor Aubernet
• Massimo Carocci: Captain Ryan
• George F. Salvage  (as G.F. Savage)
• Pierre Richard
  Pierre Richard
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  : Sergeant Doss
• Antonio Monselesan  (as Tony Norton)
• Max Turilli: Feldwebel Siedler
• Giuseppe Castellano
  Giuseppe Castellano
  Giuseppe Castellano was an Italian general who negotiated the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces on September 8, 1943.-Military career:...
  
    (as G. Castellano)
• Renato Pinciroli: Denise's father (as R. Pinciroli)
• Luciano Lorcas
  Luciano Catenacci
  Luciano Catenacci was an Italian born actor and production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He produced the horror film Operazione paura...
  
  
• Paolo Magalotti
• Guido Di Salvo
• Gianni Pulone
• Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia: Navy officer (as Ivan Scratuglia)
• Giuseppe Terranova
• Sergio Testori
• R. Mantovani
• John Bartha
  John Bartha
  János Bartha is a Hungarian film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as Sheriff who captured Tuco in the 1966 Sergio Leone film, the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a film that also starred Clint...
  
  : Ted Bancroft - American General (uncredited)
• William Conroy: German Soldier (uncredited)
• Tom Felleghy: Colonel Voller (uncredited)
• Renato Pugluai: (uncredited)
• Michele Titov: (uncredited)
• Bill Vanders: David - American Officer (uncredited)