Churchill's Leopards

Churchill's Leopards
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Directed by	Maurizio Pradeaux
Produced by	Roberto Capitani Marcello Ciriaci Ricardo Sanz
Written by	Arpad DeRiso Federico De Urrutia Maurizio Pradeaux
Starring	Richard Harrison Klaus Kinski
Cinematography	Miguel Fernández Mila
Editing by	Enzo Alabiso
Release date(s)	14 August 1970
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Italy Spain
Language	Italian

Churchill's Leopards (Italian: I leopardi di Churchill, Spanish: Los Leopardos de Churchill) is a 1970 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and starring Richard Harrison.^[1]

Plot

A German SS officer (Klaus Kinski) suspects that an officer (Richard Harrison) in command of a dam may not be the loyal Nazi he claims to be. In fact he is a British officer whose mission is to assist commandos in the destruction of the dam before D-Day.^[2]

Cast

• Richard Harrison - Lt. Richard Benson / Lt. Hans Müller
• Pilar Velázquez - Elise
• Giacomo Rossi-Stuart - Major Powell
• Frank Braña - François Leduc
• Angela Covello
• Helga Liné - Marlene Schulman
• Claudio Biava
• Massimo Righi (as Max Dean)
• Antonio Casas - La Tulipe
• Klaus Kinski - Captain Holtz
• Herb Andress - German officer (as Herbert Andress)
• Giovanni De Angelis
• Sergio Doria
• Bruno Erba
• Augusto Funari
• John Frederick
• Omero Gargano
• Franco Marletta
• Furio Pellerani
• Pelio Quaglia
• Goffredo Unger - (as Fredi Unger)

Releases

Wild East released the film on a Limited Edition NTSC Region 0 DVD double feature with Salt in the Wound in 2007.

See also

• Euro War
• War Film

References

1. ^ "New York Times: Churchill's Leopards". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/141543/I-Leopardi-di-Churchill/overview. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
2. ^ Charles Ambler, Wild East DVD Case, 2007. Last accessed: September 2008.

External links

• Churchill's Leopards at the Internet Movie Database