A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

• Hape Film
• Eguiluz Films
• Jack Palance
• Wolfgang Preiss
• Curd Jürgens
• Thomas Hunter
• Claudio Undari
• Helmuth Schneider
• Guido Lollobrigida
• Aldo Sambrell