A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
Jack Palance
as Charley MacPherson
Wolfgang Preiss
as Colonel Ackerman
Curd Jürgens
as General Von Reilow
Thomas Hunter
as Kevin Burke
Claudio Undari
as Raymond Stone
Helmuth Schneider
as Sam Schrier
Guido Lollobrigida
as Tom Carlyle
Aldo Sambrell
as Karim Habinda
Lorenzo Robledo
as Bernard Knowles
Bruno Corazzari
as Frank Madigan
Diana Lorys
as Janine
Franco Fantasia
as Marc Schiwers
