Tarnished Heroes (1961)
1h 13m
Running Time
June 16, 1961Release Date
Plot.
According to the officer's handbook, 'an officer will perform whatever task confronts him with whatever men are available' and for Major Bell the men in question are drunks, thieves and deserters. With the German army closing in on his company's position, Major Bell undertakes a suicidal mission to blow up a bridge of strategic importance to the enemy. His only help will come in the form of a rag-tag band of army rejects who must become heroes if they are to fulfil their mission and come back alive.
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Cast & Crew.
Dermot Walsh
Major Roy Bell
Anton Rodgers
Private Donald Conyers
Patrick McAlinney
Private Timothy Reilly
Brian Peck
Bernie White
Hugh David
Private Walter Hoyt
Brian Peck
Private Bernard White
Max Butterfield
Private Anthony Burton
Richard Carpenter
Private Frederick Burton
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Tarnished Heroes is a 1961 British war film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Dermot Walsh and Anton Rodgers. It was produced by Danziger Productions.
The film is set in France during World War II, and concerns a British major who destroys a Nazi convoy. The plot of the film bears similarities to The Dirty Dozen, although it was made five years before Robert Aldrich's film, and three years before the novel on which it is based.