Edited sentence: The movie is even notable to avoid many established clichés about Italian troops in WW2, which feature all-too-regularly in Hollywood products.With a simplistic "boys' own adventure" plot and a handful of B-movie regulars, declining stars and semi-amateur actors Corman manages to patch together a discreetly entertaining movie, which, while borrowing heavily from The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare and The Dirty Dozen manages however not to feel too tacky or derivative