Twenty years later this film achieved posthumous fame when David Lodge swelled up with pride and declared he was in 'Cockleshell Heroes' on Spike Milligan's TV show.
Jose Ferrer is perfectly cast as an aloof, cold-blood martinet who drives his men mad, while several of the talent involved from cameraman Ted Moore to Christopher Lee later came up in the world and took part in the James Bond franchise.
Like all Warwick productions it inevitably features Anthony Newley, while it provides the not considerable pleasure of seeing Percy Herbert in a Nazi helmet, and John Fabian hitching a lift from Sam Kydd and in a broad Irish brogue while claiming that the uniform he's wearing is actually that of the Irish Salvation Army.
Jose Ferrer is perfectly cast as an aloof, cold-blood martinet who drives his men mad, while several of the talent involved from cameraman Ted Moore to Christopher Lee later came up in the world and took part in the James Bond franchise.
Like all Warwick productions it inevitably features Anthony Newley, while it provides the not considerable pleasure of seeing Percy Herbert in a Nazi helmet, and John Fabian hitching a lift from Sam Kydd and in a broad Irish brogue while claiming that the uniform he's wearing is actually that of the Irish Salvation Army.