Combat! Gideon’s Army

Saunders and his men weave their way through a tortuous escape route accompanied by a gaunt and ragged group of liberated Polish prisoners. Glinski: Milton Selzer. Karacz: Albert Szabo. Buxman: Richard Jaeckel. Kirby: Jack Hogan., Coming across a Nazi work camp, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad liberate a group of starving Polish slave laborers. These men had been abandoned by their captors because they are to weak to walk–and it is for the same reason that Saunders may also be forced to leave the prisoners behind. A clue to the story’s outcome can be found in titular reference to the Biblical Gideon, an Israelite military leader whose ragtag army won an important battle armed only with trumpets, torches and clay jars!