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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Desert Commandos<br />
| image = Desert-Commandos-poster.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Italian film poster<br />
| native_name = ''Attentato ai tre grandi''<br />
| director = [[Umberto Lenzi]]<br />
| producer = [[Alberto Grimaldi]]<br />
| writer = <br />
| screenplay = Umberto Lenzi{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| story = Umberto Lenzi{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| starring = {{plainlist|*[[Ken Clark (actor)|Ken Clark]]<br />
*[[Horst Frank]]<br />
*[[Jeanne Valérie]]<br />
*[[Carlo Hintermann]]<br />
*[[Howard Ross (actor)|Howard Ross]]<br />
*[[Fabienne Dali]]<br />
*[[Franco Fantasia]]<br />
*[[Gianni Rizzo]]}}<br />
| narrator = <br />
| music = [[Angelo Francesco Lavagnino]]{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| cinematography = Carlo Carlini{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| editing = [[Eugenio Alabiso]]{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| production_companies = {{plainlist|*[[Alberto Grimaldi|PEA]]<br />
*Constantin Film<br />
*Films Ege{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}}}<br />
| distributor = PEA <br> [[Constantin Film]]<br />
| released = 1 December 1967 (Italy)<br>{{Film date|df=yes|1968|3|15|West Germany}}<br />
| runtime = 96 minutes{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}<br />
| country = {{plainlist|*Italy<br />
*France<br />
*West Germany{{sfn|Cowie|Elley|1977|p=300}}}}<br />
| language = Italian<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
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'''''Desert Commandos''''' (Italian: ''Attentato ai tre grandi'') is a 1967 French/Italian/West German [[international co-production]] [[war film]] set during World War II in [[Morocco]] where it was filmed. The Italian title (''Attack on the Big Three'') refers to a German commando group with a mission to assassinate [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] and [[Charles de Gaulle|de Gaulle]] at the [[Casablanca Conference]].<br />
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The film is a character-based drama that focuses on the German soldiers' various drives and conflicts during encounters with [[Tuareg people|Tuareg]] nomads, and French and American soldiers.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
The grief-stricken Captain Fritz Schoeller has assisted his terminally ill wife with her wishes for [[euthanasia]]. A party of men whisk him from his wife's funeral, not for arrest, but to be briefed on a special mission he will lead. The Captain, Lt. Roland Wolf, Sgt. Erich Huber, Corporal Hans Ludwig and Private Willy Mainz are all skilled in commando tactics and have excellent English language skills. They are dressed in [[Commandos (United Kingdom)|British Commando]] uniforms and parachuted into Morocco where Faddja Hassen, an Arab woman will guide them to Casablanca where they will assassinate Allied leaders.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Ken Clark (actor)|Ken Clark]]: Captain Fritz Schoeller<br />
* [[Horst Frank]]: Lt. Roland Wolf<br />
* [[Jeanne Valérie]]: Faddja Hassen<br />
* [[Carlo Hintermann]]: Sgt. Erich Huber<br />
* [[Howard Ross (actor)|Howard Ross]]: Willy Mainz<br />
* [[Franco Fantasia]]: Major Dalio<br />
* Hardy Reichelt: Corporal Hans Ludwig<br />
* [[Fabienne Dali]]: Simone<br />
* [[John Stacy]]: Sir Bryan<br />
* [[Tom Felleghy]]: Colonel Ross<br />
* [[Gianni Rizzo]]: Perrier<br />
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== Release ==<br />
The film was released in West Germany on March 15, 1968, as ''Fünf gegen Casablanca''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/fuenf-gegen-casablanca_ea43d4a7482f5006e03053d50b37753d|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Fünf gegen Casablanca|access-date=July 30, 2022}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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=== Sources ===<br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Cowie|first1=Peter|authorlink1=Peter Cowie|authorlink2=Derek Elley|last2=Elley|first2=Derek|title=World Filmography: 1967 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |date=1977 |isbn=0-498-01565-3 }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0061693|title=Desert Commandos}}<br />
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{{Umberto Lenzi}}<br />
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[[Category:1968 war films]]<br />
[[Category:West German films]]<br />
[[Category:Italian war films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Umberto Lenzi]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Morocco]]<br />
[[Category:North African campaign films]]<br />
[[Category:Films produced by Alberto Grimaldi]]<br />
[[Category:Constantin Film films]]<br />
[[Category:French World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:German World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:Italian World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:Macaroni Combat films]]<br />
[[Category:1960s Italian films]]<br />
[[Category:1960s French films]]<br />
[[Category:1960s German films]]<br />
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