![]() ![]() Grice (David Niven) to travel to Goa on board of the old ship Phoebe, pretending to be drunken businessmen on holiday. They fail in their mission, but Lewis and Gavin convince their chief to use the veterans from Calcutta Light Horse led by the retired Colonel W.H. ![]() Cromwell (Barbara Kellerman), who is the partner of Trompeta. Meanwhile Gavin has one night stand with the gorgeous and elegant Mrs. They kidnap Trompeta to interrogate him but Lewis accidentally kills the spy after fighting with him in the runaway car. In Calcutta, the British Intelligence assigns Colonel Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) and Captain Gavin Stewart (Roger Moore) to spy in Goa and they discover that there are three German vessels anchored in the area and the famous spy Trompeta (Wolf Kahler) is based in Goa. ![]() In March 1943, in the World War II, the Germans use the neutral harbor of the Portuguese colony of Mormugoa to transmit information to a U-Boat about the allied ships to sink them in international waters. In that port, at anchor is a German ship, the Ehrenfels Their job is to seize that ship, or sink her where she is Also in that port are two other German ships so if they can knock them off at the same time, so much the better As you can see it is a crucial operation where many allied lives might be saved David Niven is the only man with any experience at sea⁜harlie Wilton will remain aboard to nurse the engine of the old tub Trevor Howard will have his only chance to settle accounts for his boy killed in Burma Roger Moore has to deal with some spies Peck has to lead the whole suicide adventure The film moves along beautifully, reaching an exciting and tense climax Don't miss it! The film opens with incredibly accurate information that Forty-six freighters were sunk by the German submarines in the Indian Ocean in the past few weeks The U-boats know exactly where and when to strike On one hand, we also know that the Portuguese authorities dismantled the ships' radios when they gave them permission to stay there On the other, if Radio Monitoring is right, and the transmitter is actually in the harbor, it must be on a ship Not being able to break the code, the British Intelligence has to find out from where the information to those U-boats originates To find whoever heads the spy ring, and to get rid of the transmitter without forgetting to violate Portugal's neutrality Now if a British Commando cannot violate Goa's neutral status, they might have to turn to amateurs The Light Horse has not been in action as a unit since the Boer War in 1900 If they were caught, it might be taken as a drunken escapade We are speaking about ex-soldiers on holiday, stealing a river ferry, sailing it the whole way round India from Calcutta to Cochin and then heading for the neutral port of Mormugoa, Portuguese colony. ![]()
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