Playing the title role in The Enemy General is Dutch actor John Van Dreelan who played a few Nazis during his career. Van Dreelan is the worst kind of Nazi around, one who massacred a big chunk of the population of a certain French village where Van Johnson of the OSS and Jean-Pierre Aumont are operating. During one operation Dany Carrel who is giving Johnson a little wartime morale booster is killed.
But now Johnson has a different assignment. Van Dreelan is being held as part of the plot against Hitler and he's scheduled to be shot. Through his French mistress Francoise Prevost, Van Dreelan's let the Allies know that he can help them out with their intelligence if they can liberate him before he faces the firing squad. That's the assignment Johnson and Aumont draw and they hate it. But they do it.
What was dumb here was why when they learned Van Dreelan was acting as a double agent they didn't just shoot him is beyond me. And the mistress while they were at it. Still Johnson and Aumont insist on doing the mission. Answer, because it made for an exciting climax shootout.
Despite what the cast knew was a dumb plot gambit they all perform to their best and the climax is a nice one.
You have to remember that this is a Sam Katzman production and perhaps even with location shooting and some major stars, Katzman still isn't exactly careful with his stories.
But now Johnson has a different assignment. Van Dreelan is being held as part of the plot against Hitler and he's scheduled to be shot. Through his French mistress Francoise Prevost, Van Dreelan's let the Allies know that he can help them out with their intelligence if they can liberate him before he faces the firing squad. That's the assignment Johnson and Aumont draw and they hate it. But they do it.
What was dumb here was why when they learned Van Dreelan was acting as a double agent they didn't just shoot him is beyond me. And the mistress while they were at it. Still Johnson and Aumont insist on doing the mission. Answer, because it made for an exciting climax shootout.
Despite what the cast knew was a dumb plot gambit they all perform to their best and the climax is a nice one.
You have to remember that this is a Sam Katzman production and perhaps even with location shooting and some major stars, Katzman still isn't exactly careful with his stories.