When the Warner Brothers send their boys over to Germany to fight the Nazis, the Axis will surely land on their behinds. Those boys are Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Hale, among others, and they find that not all Germans are out to destroy the allies. The young men are sent over on a mission of sabotage, blowing up bridges, train tracks, factories and munitions plants, and while some obviously do not return, they all face that reality with determination to get the job done, and even with humor. Raymond Massey joins the list of Hollywood actors like Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Peter Lorre and George Sanders who played Nazi officers and is appropriately menacing, in addition to quite urbane and sophisticated, a fact that Hollywood producers promoted as a way of proving how dangerous these characters could seem behind their sometimes polite facade. Hale gets the funniest moments, shooting bee-bees at his cohorts and the Nazis as if they were spitballs. Flynn, being the only character who speaks German, leads the group after their commander is killed. There's much sentiment concerning the youngest member of the mission, the son of a World War I hero that even Nazi officer Massey remembers.
The underground of each side is explored, whether being Germans who support the allies and welcome the English and British as their saviors, as well as others who are double agents, pretending to be on the sides of the allies while reporting everything to the Gestapo. Nancy Coleman is the only young female in the cast, showing up as one of the underground assisting Flynn. An exciting chase sequence features a funny moment when Reagen shows Flynn how the bootleggers of the prohibition era would deal with federal officers who were chasing them while being chased by the Nazi's. Flynn's closing line is a gem which gave hints of a sequel, but even though that never showed up, these actors would certainly repeat the same types of roles during the remainder of the war that still had three years to go.
The underground of each side is explored, whether being Germans who support the allies and welcome the English and British as their saviors, as well as others who are double agents, pretending to be on the sides of the allies while reporting everything to the Gestapo. Nancy Coleman is the only young female in the cast, showing up as one of the underground assisting Flynn. An exciting chase sequence features a funny moment when Reagen shows Flynn how the bootleggers of the prohibition era would deal with federal officers who were chasing them while being chased by the Nazi's. Flynn's closing line is a gem which gave hints of a sequel, but even though that never showed up, these actors would certainly repeat the same types of roles during the remainder of the war that still had three years to go.