Operation Cross Eagles
Cast & Crew
Richard Conte
Richard Conte
Rory Calhoun
Aili King
Phil Brown
Rada Djuricin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sgt. Sean MacAfee and two survivors of his commando unit, Sergeant Tunley and Corporal Bell, are waiting to be picked up in Yugoslavia after completing their mission during World War II. They are intercepted by a group of Germans who take them to a secluded farmhouse where they meet American Lieutenant Bradford, who had enlisted the aid of some local partisans to impersonate the Germans in order to bring back MacAfee and his men. Bradford is recovering from wounds he received when his mission to rescue a captured American officer was betrayed by an informer. Bradford's plan to capture a German commandant and pretend to exchange him for the American officer, who supposedly knows the Allied invasion plans, is almost foiled by a traitor among them. However, Bradford's plan is finally successful: the officer is rescued, and the Americans, by a trick, retain the German commandant as their prisoner. The traitor, Corporal Bell, is discovered and killed when he attempts to free the commandant. Bradford explains that the Allied invasion plan was a fabrication to divert the Germans, and that the purpose of the mission was to capture the commandant.
Director
Richard Conte
Cast
Richard Conte
Rory Calhoun
Aili King
Phil Brown
Rada Djuricin
Relja Ba¿ic
Abdul Rahman
Rick West
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
Copyright length: 84 min. Location scenes filmed in Piran, Yugoslavia, and Trieste. Yugoslav title: Unakrsna vatra. A Yugoslav source credits Casey Diamond as director.
