The Secret Invasion
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Original film poster by Howard Terpning
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| Directed by | Roger Corman |
| Produced by | Gene Corman |
| Written by | R. Wright Campbell |
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Stewart Granger Raf Vallone Mickey Rooney Edd Byrnes Henry Silva Spela Rozin (as Mia Massini) William Campbell |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography | Arthur E. Arling |
| Edited by | Ronald Sinclair |
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The Corman Company
San Carlos Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $592,000 |
| Box office | $3 million 1,167,281 admissions (France) |
The Secret Invasion is a 1964 Eastmancolor American war film directed by Roger Corman in Panavision. It stars Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva, Spela Rozin and William Campbell. Appearing three years before The Dirty Dozen (1967), the film features a similar World War II mission where convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous operation behind enemy lines.
In 1943, British Intelligence in Cairo recruits criminal mastermind Roberto Rocca (Raf Vallone), demolitions expert and Irish Republican Army member Terence Scanlon (Mickey Rooney), forger Simon Fell (Edd Byrnes), cold-blooded murderer John Durrell (Henry Silva), and thief and impersonator Jean Saval (William Campbell) for a dangerous mission. The men are offered pardons in exchange for attempting to rescue an Italian general sympathetic to the Allies who is imprisoned in German-occupied Yugoslavia. The group is led by Major Richard Mace (Stewart Granger), who is trying to expiate his feelings of guilt for sending his own brother on a dangerous mission and waiting too long to extricate him. The fishing boat transporting Mace's team is stopped by a patrol boat, but they dispose of the Germans.
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