the picture be set during german invasion of norway and the historical event be the following represent the invasion begin on april 9 and 1940. the german navy and airforce lead the operation . the hitler plan rely on surprise to avoid interception by the british and to prevent norwegian force from mobilize . the sudden appearance of naval task force take norwegian defender by surprise and allow airfield around oslo and tondheim and stevenager to be capture by the german intact . german force at trondheim advance and link up with force in oslo . norwegian force in central and southern begin to surrender . in northern norway british and french troop fight against german in narvik . but the allied decide to pull out of norway and evacuate force from narvik . norway royal family and government flee to britain . then the british staff assign a dangerous mission to canadian officer owen ( lyle talbot ) to norway to prepare for a ride to be execute by allied and especially by the british royal navy . his aim also include free a general who be be prisoned by the nazi at a concentration camp . he accompany by lieutenant eric ( george neise ) and sergeant harry ( charles rogers ) . in norway contact a waif blind man . but inga ( jane duprez ) a norwegian gorgeous girl to whom eric be once betroth be now a collaborationist of nazi and she betray them . this be average and low budget movie full of stock shot of explosion and documentary footage from ship and cruiser . the director be genuinely skillful in the hectically edited cutting room and smartness from pressure exert by the minimum budget and use even photograph a background . the movie be star by b series actor a lyle talbot who terminate his career work for edward wood jr in plan 9 from out space and glen and glenda while charles rogers and a secondary actor and director of film for stan laurel and oliver hardy . and jane duprez who have a successful beginning with four feather and thief of bagdag but finish do small picture and here she play a collaborationist or ¨quisling¨ who be a norwegian prime minister whose collaboration with the nazi mean his name become a term meaning traitor . the film be regularly direct by spencer gordon bennet . spencer gordon along with george b seitz be the father of the american serial . bennet first be a stunt men in the seitz serial . later on and he strike out on the serial world and go on make serial until 1956 and the last year of serial production by american company . bennet co direct exciting serial a ¨zorro and superman and captain video and bat man and robin and brick bradford¨ and several others . bennet reputation for get surprising reaction from his actor at the appropriate time be partly explain by his habit of creep up behind his player and fire blank . his western with tim mccoy and will bill elliott and buck jones and ken maynard be all imaginative and fast movement and with rattle scene . right at the end of his career he direct sci fi a ¨submarine seahawk¨ and ¨atomic submarine¨and again westerns a ¨the bounty killerand ¨requiem for a gunfighter¨ .