Fine acting lifts this drama from "Chrysler Theatre", unfairly compared to "The Dirty Dozen" (that earthy novel written two years later that became a classic action movie). In reality it resembles a "Combat!" tv episode, one that emphasizes dramatics, omitting the weekly quota of gunfire and explosions.
Peter Falk is excellent casting as the tough guy convict whose street-smart roughness hides a sentimental heart, and Susan Strasberg channels (and even looks just like) Audrey Hepburn as the empathetic German romantic interest.
It's structured as a caper, with Falk and three other convicts answering to military officer Simon Oakland to steal from a Leipzig bank vault the plans for an advanced German rocket that might win the war for the Axis powers. The thrills, action and scope of a motion picture are lacking, as this was a weekly TV episode, but instead the personal performances hold up well. And the bittersweet, emotional ending still is moving.