embarrassingly inept propaganda film that seem to have be hide away from the public for almost 60 year and since it release back in 1942 and until the miracle of the dvd disc bring it back to be see by a new and and stun and generation of movie goer . it the hight of wwii and the british want to start trouble for the german in occupied norway by get the norwegian people to rise up against them . send a number of british agent into the country to try to rescue norwegian general and and national hero and heden lead to all of them get capture and shoot by the german army . desperate the british send a trio of secret agent lead by capt . robert owens together with radio and all around handyman sgt . harry hall and norwegian patriot let . eric falken to finally get gen. hayden out of the country and have him use on the bbc to rally his fellow countryman to revolt against the hated german . drop into norway by plane everything go wrong for owen men almost as soon a they land . eric fiancée inga spot him and and unknowing to eric and be a german sympathizer report him and his fellow agent to the local gestapo . the feared and effective gestapo act like a bunch of buffoon a their knock out and disarm by eric and co. after they first disarm and arrest them . help by undercover norwegian agent and the town blind beggar and spandling and owens have the three gestapo officer tie up . the british agent put on the german uniform that be and miraculously and perfect fit for owen falken and hall even though the three be different in hight weight pant and suite size . the german try to untie themselves and not at all feeling threaten by a blind man and sandling and sit guard over them have the shock of their life when sandling become the world first suicide bomber . sandling blow himself the german and the entire building up in a massive explosion with a top secret brtish super hand grenade that owen give him . the rest of the movie be all too predictable with the german make complete fool of themselves try to capture the three british agent and screw up at every opportunity . owen and his men get to the prison camp where gen. haden be be hold and have no trouble and be dress in german gestapo uniform and in get him out but need to get the general help for a broken arm he suffer during his rescue . hiding in the cold norwegian wood owens sends eric and who can speak norwegian and into town to get help but he again betray by inga to the gestapo . we later learn why inga be so mad at her former lover eric . eric check on her father sturdy and sea bearing sailboat and hold eric responsible for her father death when he drown in the dinky and water log dinghy that eric leave him when he try to do the same thing and escape to freedom in england . the german again capture owen and a sgt . hall get away with gen. heden and and unlike with poor eric whom they torture almost to death the german try kindness with him by offer him a smoke . all this in order to get eric to open up and tell them not only where gen heden be but what else be be plan by his superior back in london in regard to the plan allied invasion of norway . the end of the movie make you think that your watch a war movie about the d day invasion of france and with an armada of ship plane and thousand of allied troop storm the beach and instead of a film about three commando try to get just one man out of norway under the cover of darkness . they raid by night be worth watch only because it have actor lyle talbot a it top star play the head of the british rescue team capt . robert owen . fame would smile on talbot ten year later when he meet and become involve with legendary bad movie director edward wood jr. and be cast in four of his cinematic classic while the adventure of the tucson kid and glen and glenda in 1953 jail bait in 1954 and what many consider to be wood great masterpiece his citizen kane the superb immortal and unforgettable plan nine from out space .