Nailbiting.

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 1998)

This film shall not be missed. Why? Well, because this is one of the first true action films (I wish more of today's directors would learn from it), brim-filled with plotwists, explosions and Nazis. Richard Burton does one of his best performances as the double-sided leader of a group set out to free a prisoner of war. Ron Goodwin's masterful score is his absolute best, and has been copied time and time again. Poor Ron, he only got to compose "military" types of scores for the remainder of his career. But at that he was very good. If all this doesn't intrigue you, then buy it or rent it, just for the sake of watching Clint Eastwood as a young lad.