embarrassingly bad and low budget italian make war movie set in holland in the dying day of wwii . a tedious and plod storyline concern a plot to steal some diamond from a german hq and awful acting and dreadful edit make this movie a prize turkey from the opening scene right through to the cringeworthy oh so 60 ` romantic end which will have you reach for the puke bucket that be if you haven not already reach for the ` off button long before . the bad performance come from john ireland a captain oconnor and the blonde female lead and whose name escape me . she play the ` love interest to our rugged leading man . perhaps it wasn not entirely her fault and a back then female romantic lead and especially in action movie and be often write a weak and wishy washy and sobbing and super sensitive emotional jellyfish . this one be no exception and and the second and support female character be just a bad . simply nauseate to watch . even the action scene ( which be few and far between and except towards the end ) be bore and predictable . most ludicrously and in the climatic battle and we have rugged leading man and his two mate hole up in some sandbagged bunker and effortlessly gun down endless attack german right and leave and centre . the german of course be all terrible shot and even seem to be eager cannon fodder and a they make little or no effort to take cover and die spectacularly in drove amid much flailing of arm and comic book shout of ` aaaaargh . this be glorification of war at it very worst . then suddenly right in the middle of the battle the resistance guy pull up completely unmolested in a stolen german jeep and trot effortlessly along a convenient trench which lead directly into the bunker and which somehow hundred of german approach from all side have fail to spot and calmly join our hero inside the bunker . another scene of crass stupidity that really must be see to be believe have captain oconnor fly over the german line in a reconnaissance plane which and with the help of some clumsily insert old newsreel footage and be suddenly and miraculously transform into a heavy bomber disgorge it massive payload from wide open bomb bay and pulverise the german beneath and before once more instantaneously revert to be a small reconnaissance plane again . the concept of an ongoing truce between the resistance fighter and the occupying german army also seem ludicrous to me and yet this be a central theme of the movie . the english title of the film be obviously inspire by ` the dirty dozen ( which be make around the same time ) but it doesn not deserve to be mention in the same breath . the original italian title of this film ( dalle ardenne all inferno ) and the sleeve note for the english language video release be also grossly mislead . this film have absolutely nothing to do with the battle of the ardennes . the ardennes isn not even in holland it a part of belgium which indicate that the film maker knowledge of world war ii event and geography be just as limited a their ability to make even a half decent film . don not waste two hour of your valuable time on this rubbish . one of the bad movie i have have the misfortune to sit through and i have sit through some garbage .