The Devil's Brigade

The Devil's Brigade

Video 712x304 - 29.97 fps, 1200 kbps, Xvid MPEG-4 Codec
Audio 48000Hz, 2 channel stereo, 160 kbps
Duration 2:12:00.913
Subtitles English (.srt and .ssa)

This is an excellent and entertaining war movie, often overlooked.

"The Devil's Brigade" is a 1968 American war film based on the 1966 book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the 1st Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit that saw action during World War II in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later in the European Theater of Operations.

The film recounts the formation, training, and first European mission of the 1st Special Service Force, a unique American-Canadian commando unit that became known as the "Devil's Brigade". The Americans, largely misfits, and their spit and polish Canadian counterparts eventually overcome reciprocal antagonism, learn to respect each other, and coalesce as a unified team. The film dramatizes the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the seemingly impossible task of capturing what had been an impregnable Nazi mountain stronghold, Monte La Difensa, with losses far greater than expected.

"The Devil's Brigade" was real, but was known as "The Black Devils". During World War II, that brigade suffered casualty rates of thirty-nine percent. It was disbanded in 1944.


More Information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Brigade_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062886/