The Secret Invasion

This story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide mission for British Intelligence. They are smuggled into Yugoslavia to conduct several commando raids against the Nazi invaders., A group of misfit WWII soldiers spring an Italian general from a Nazi prison in the hope that he will turn his army to the Allied side. Stars Stuart Granger., The story of British Intelligence using criminals to work behind enemy lines in WW2., The story of British Intelligence using criminals to work behind enemy lines in World War II Yugoslavia., WWII action as convicts are recruited for an extremely dangerous mission freeing an Italian general from the Nazis., World War II action drama in which five criminals are transformed into crack military fighters and sent behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia., Five criminals try to snatch an Italian general from the Nazis in return for pardons. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Henry Silva, Edd Byrnes. Well directed by Roger Corman on location in Yugoslavia.