The Hell With Heroes
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Sargent
Rod Taylor
Claudia Cardinale
Harry Guardino
Kevin Mccarthy
Peter Deuel
Film Details
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Synopsis
In 1946, former Air Force pilots Brynie MacKay and Mike Brewer are operating an impoverished cargo operation out of Algeria. Embittered because the war prevented him from becoming a teacher and eager for the big money, Brynie accepts an offer from international smuggler Lee Harris to ferry Egyptian cotton to France. When Brynie learns he is flying contraband cigarettes, he extracts a larger fee from Harris, who retaliates by hiding narcotics in Brynie's plane and then reporting him to Colonel Wilson of U. S. Counterintelligence. After Brynie's payment has been confiscated and his plane impounded, he is taken to Harris' estate by the latter's mistress, Elena, the daughter of an aristocrat who has fallen on hard times. When Harris agrees to put Brynie back in business by giving him 12 more illegal cargo runs, Mike warns that they will probably both be killed after the completion of the assignment. Brynie, wanting the cash to buy his own plane, ignores the advice until Mike later tells him that he has set a trap for Harris by divulging the flight plans to Colonel Wilson. Unwilling to give up Harris' money, Brynie tries to land the plane safely away from Wilson's waiting men. Harris suspects a hijacking scheme, however, and in the ensuing struggle kills Mike before being knocked unconscious by Brynie. After landing the plane at an abandoned military air strip, Brynie informs Wilson over the phone of the whereabouts of the contraband and then escapes to North Africa with Elena. When Harris tracks them down, Brynie retaliates for Mike's murder by smashing Harris' head against a steel plate. Wilson arrives on the scene, takes Harris into custody, and announces that because of the deal he made with Mike he will not arrest Brynie. Brynie decides to return to America with Elena and become a teacher.
Director
Joseph Sargent
Cast
Rod Taylor
Claudia Cardinale
Harry Guardino
Kevin Mccarthy
Peter Deuel
William Marshall
Don Knight
Michael Shillo
Robert Yuro
Lew Brown
Wilhelm Von Homburg
Tanya Lemani
Mae Mercer
Emile Genest
Louis De Farra
Jacqueline Bertrand
Ric Natoli
Tony Nassour
Ricky Namay
George Samaan
David Sindaha
Sid Haig
Jim Creech
Pedro Regas
David Kurzon
Naji Gabbay
Crew
George Bisk
Lyle Cain
Stanley Chase
Howard Epstein
Dorothy Fields
Larry Germain
Joseph Gershenson
Alexander Golitzen
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Henry Kline
Harold Livingston
Harold Livingston
John J. Lloyd
Jean Louis
John Mccarthy Jr.
George Milo
Bert Steinberger
Jivan R. Tabibian
Bud Thackery
Waldon O. Watson
Halsted Welles
Bud Westmore
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Location scenes filmed in Southern California. Working titles: A Time for Heroes and Run Hero Run.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer August 1968
Techniscope
Released in United States Summer August 1968
