A made-for-TV flick regarding a cunning officer to discover a traitor, this Fireball Forward deals with a tough general to carry out a new mission . Along the way , he suspects that there is a Nazi sympathizer in his ranks , and dedicates himself to ferreting out the mole . The final part there's a bit of action, to discover the culprit and avoid wreck havoc against his subordinates and then run for their lives . The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky relationship with their leader Ben Gazzara . The message here isn't that war is hell. Rather, it seems to be: war can be a hell of a good time... if you've got nothing to lose . The dangerous missions include numerous group formed by a motley and diverse bataillon played by all-star cast .
In this rugged WWII movie , Ben Gazzara ssumes the role of the hard-nose leader of a garrison , as he's assigned by the Military Staff to take over a division with a bad combat record . He is a fictional American general , a two-fisted and stubborn officer who's more pattered as a rough sergeant than as a strict general . It's an ordinary wartime classic movie professionally directed by Marvin Chomsky and being scripted by prestigious Edmund H. North . This moving film packs suspense , intrigue , thriller and buck-loads of explosive action in some spectacular battles , mostly being stock footage . It was actually the 2-hour pilot for an unsold television series. The noisy action limited to a few battles , being uniformly well-made, especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes , including some spectacular shootouts and bombing . Apart from the values of team spirit , cudgeled by Ben Gazzara as a demanding general obviously patterned on Old Blood and Guts into his misfit team , the film is full of overtalking in barracks , feats , suspense and thrills . Rough Ben Gazzara is good as leader of the motley division together thwart the Nazi schemes and find out a traitor who is informing to enemy , as well as the large secondary cast with special mention for Ricardo Montalban , Eddie Albert , Dana Elcar , Edward Binns , Morgan Paull , L. Q. Jones , Loretta Swit , Richard Yniguez , Kenneth Tobey and Anne Francis plays a military journalist but with no romatic interest .
Produced in short budget by Frank McCarthy , in fact , including outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton that utilized to flesh out this film , as Frank produced other warlike films as MacArthur , Single-Handed , Decision before dawn and the succesful Patton . The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Marvin J. Chomsky . He was a director who often used to work for Television , shooting notorious series as Peter the Great , Anastasia , Roots , Billionaire Boys Club, Strauss Dynasty and Holocaust . He got several prices , as he commented that he had won the awards for directing projects about events that "never should have happened." One of his projects was about the Holocaust : Holocausto¨(1978) , one was about the Attica prison riot : ¨Attica¨ (1980) , one about Kennedy : ¨Robert Kennedy and His Times , regarding Argentina leader ¨Evita¨ and the Emmy he was accepting was for a project about the Nazis in Germany ¨Insde the Third Reich¨. Fireball Forward(1972) Rating : 5/10 , mediocre . Only for WWII hardcore enthusiasts.
In this rugged WWII movie , Ben Gazzara ssumes the role of the hard-nose leader of a garrison , as he's assigned by the Military Staff to take over a division with a bad combat record . He is a fictional American general , a two-fisted and stubborn officer who's more pattered as a rough sergeant than as a strict general . It's an ordinary wartime classic movie professionally directed by Marvin Chomsky and being scripted by prestigious Edmund H. North . This moving film packs suspense , intrigue , thriller and buck-loads of explosive action in some spectacular battles , mostly being stock footage . It was actually the 2-hour pilot for an unsold television series. The noisy action limited to a few battles , being uniformly well-made, especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes , including some spectacular shootouts and bombing . Apart from the values of team spirit , cudgeled by Ben Gazzara as a demanding general obviously patterned on Old Blood and Guts into his misfit team , the film is full of overtalking in barracks , feats , suspense and thrills . Rough Ben Gazzara is good as leader of the motley division together thwart the Nazi schemes and find out a traitor who is informing to enemy , as well as the large secondary cast with special mention for Ricardo Montalban , Eddie Albert , Dana Elcar , Edward Binns , Morgan Paull , L. Q. Jones , Loretta Swit , Richard Yniguez , Kenneth Tobey and Anne Francis plays a military journalist but with no romatic interest .
Produced in short budget by Frank McCarthy , in fact , including outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton that utilized to flesh out this film , as Frank produced other warlike films as MacArthur , Single-Handed , Decision before dawn and the succesful Patton . The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Marvin J. Chomsky . He was a director who often used to work for Television , shooting notorious series as Peter the Great , Anastasia , Roots , Billionaire Boys Club, Strauss Dynasty and Holocaust . He got several prices , as he commented that he had won the awards for directing projects about events that "never should have happened." One of his projects was about the Holocaust : Holocausto¨(1978) , one was about the Attica prison riot : ¨Attica¨ (1980) , one about Kennedy : ¨Robert Kennedy and His Times , regarding Argentina leader ¨Evita¨ and the Emmy he was accepting was for a project about the Nazis in Germany ¨Insde the Third Reich¨. Fireball Forward(1972) Rating : 5/10 , mediocre . Only for WWII hardcore enthusiasts.