flame throwers to buy Harker time; however, Bergman and his men are eventually killed. Meanwhile, Craig, Krug, and two other SIG men use the distraction to escape and seize a German tank well inland. After they use the tank to destroy the fuel depot, Harker and his men surrender. After surrendering, Mohnfeld then appears where he reveals that he is really a German intelligence officer named von Kruger, explaining that he had told the truth the night before, only altering that "The Jew found me in the tunnel" and asks Harker for the Kesselring document. However, upon seeing the destruction of the fuel bunkers, Harker had burned the paper knowing its importance to the Germans. Harker then kills von Kruger with his pistol and is himself shot dead. Craig, Krug and the two others manage to escape and exhausted after traveling over 70 miles on foot, make it to a scheduled back up rendezvous with a Royal Navy ship at Sallum just over the Egyptian border. Cast In order of appearance Rock Hudson as Maj. Donald Craig George Peppard as Capt. Bergman Nigel Green as Col. Harker Guy Stockwell as Lt. Mohnfeld Jack Watson as Sgt. Maj. Tyne Percy Herbert as Dolan Norman Rossington as Alfie Liam Redmond as Henry Portman Heidy Hunt as Cheryl Portman Leo Gordon as Sgt. Krug Robert Wolders as Corporal Bruckner Anthony Ashdown as L.t. Boyden Curt Lowens as German Colonel Rico Cattani as Col. Stuhler Peter Coe as Tuareg Chieftain Lawrence Montaigne as Italian Officer Bob Hoy as British Corporal Phil Adams as S.I.G. Bicker Ronnie Rondall Jr. as S.I.G. Schell Production Development The film was based on an original script by Leo Gordon, who also worked as an actor. Gordon took the script to producer Gene Corman, who he had worked with several times before. Corman originally intended to make the film on a relatively low budget, around a million dollars, for United Artists – he had just made The Secret Invasion (1964) for that studio. The scope of the film changed when Corman discovered Rock Hudson, then one of the biggest stars in the world, was about to leave his home studio of Universal because he was unhappy with the roles he had been playing (he had just signed to make Seconds at Paramount). Corman showed the script to Hudson who liked it, and he succeeded in getting the film financed at