a strategic crossroad, von Kroner warns the Germans by radio of the American attack but is ordered to stay with the Americans to ensure that the attack fails. Von Kroner's team sabotage a jeep with a bomb, killing the company commander, and attempt to destroy the unit's other vehicle, a weapons carrier, arousing Ludwig's suspicion. The company attacks a German position with Wilitz using the opportunity to shoot their lieutenant in the back, placing Ludwig in command. Several German prisoners are taken, and Richardson/Von Kroner volunteers to take them to Battalion headquarters. He returns to tell his comrades that the prisoners didn't want to escape; they wanted to surrender to the Americans with von Kroner taking them in. A furious Wilitz insists that von Kroner should have shot the lot of them. With news of German infiltrators behind American lines spreading, Ludwig is further suspicious when Wilitz doesn't know what the American "hot foot" is. Cast Van Johnson ... Lt. Hans von Kroner / Sgt. Leonard Richardson Kerwin Mathews ... Wilitz Dick York ... Plt. Sgt. Ludwig Larry Storch ... Cpl. Ennis Lise Bourdin ... Monique Han Bentz van den Berg ... Major von Ruppel Leon Askin ... Sgt. Steiner Robert Boon ... Kirsch Ton Van Duinhoven ... Hoffner Gijsbert Tersteeg ... Colonel Eindorf Brett Halsey (billed as Montgomery Ford) ... Capt. Levin Charles Rosenblum ... Schwarz Production The film was shot in the Netherlands, in the Cinetone studios in Amsterdam and in the Veluwe forest between Apeldorn and Arhhem. References External links 1959 films 1959 war films American black-and-white films American war films Columbia Pictures films Films shot in the Netherlands Western Front of World War II films World War II spy films American World War II films Films set in castles Films directed by Arthur Dreifuss 1950s English-language films 1950s American films