''Churchill's Leopards'' ( it, I leopardi di Churchill, es, Los Leopardos de Churchill) is a 1970 Italian-Spanish "
macaroni combat
Euro War, also known as Macaroni Combat, Macaroni War, Spaghetti Combat, or Spaghetti War, is a broad subgenre of war film that emerged in the mid-1960s. The films were named ''Euro War'' because most were produced and directed by European co-pr ...
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war film directed by
Maurizio Pradeaux
Maurizio Pradeaux (16 April 1931 – 1 July 2022) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a production assistant, working with .
'' Ramon the Mexican'', a western, which was released in 1967, was his debut as a fil ...
and starring
Richard Harrison and
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...
.
Plot
A British commando team heads into
occupied France
The Military Administration in France (german: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; french: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zo ...
to blow up a German held dam in preparation for
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D ...
, while a British officer infiltrates the German garrison, posing as his recently dead German twin brother, in order to provide help from the inside. The German commander is, however, becoming very suspicious.
Main cast
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Richard Harrison as Lt. Richard Benson / Lt. Hans Müller
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Pilar Velázquez
Pilar Velázquez (born 13 February 1946) is a Spanish actress.
Born as María del Pilar Velázquez Llorente in Madrid, she made her debut in 1964 at the Teatro Español, with the drama ''Caminos de Damasco''. Between 1966 and 1977 she starred in ...
as Elise
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Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Major Powell
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Frank Braña as François Leduc
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Helga Liné
Helga Liné (; born Helga Lina Stern on 14 July 1932) is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish-American film actress and circus acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made 132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 20 ...
as Marlene Schulman
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Antonio Casas as "La Tulipe"
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Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...
as
Hauptsturmführer Holtz
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Herb Andress
Herb Andress (January 10, 1935, in Bad Goisern – April 8, 2004, in Munich), born Herbert Andreas Greunz, was an Austrian film and television actor, known particularly for his roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film ''Lili Marleen'' (1981) and ...
See also
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Euro War
Euro War, also known as Macaroni Combat, Macaroni War, Spaghetti Combat, or Spaghetti War, is a broad subgenre of war film that emerged in the mid-1960s. The films were named ''Euro War'' because most were produced and directed by European co-pr ...
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War Film
References
External links
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1970 films
Italian war films
Spanish war films
1970s Italian-language films
Western Front of World War II films
Macaroni Combat films
Films directed by Maurizio Pradeaux
Films produced by Ricardo Sanz
1970s Italian films
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