'Hell in Normandy' (1968) - Alfonso Brescia.
The enjoyably frantic 'Hell in Normandy' is a boisterously fun Italo-French WW2 actioner from infamous exploitation director Alfonso Brescia. While clearly under-budgeted, he effectively utilizes some authentic looking locations, and is blessed with a cracking cast, namely B-cult heroes Guy Madison, Peter Lee Lawrence and the positively incandescent heavenly body Erika Blanc! While Brescia is, perhaps, better known for unleashing his torrid grindhouse duo of 'The Beast in Space' and Sci-schlock disasterpiece 'Star Odyssey' on a wholly unprepared world, happily, Brescia also proves himself a capable B-Action filmmaker, jollying things along at a bracing pace, ably constructing some terse interludes, plus orchestrating a rowdy number of bullet-shredded exchanges as the daring squad's Gung-ho 'Suicide Mission' comes to a satisfyingly explosive climax! 'Hell in Normandy' is a rumbustious, hell-for-leather, switch the brain off for 90 minutes WW2 yarn that gives the luminous, flame-haired Euro-starlet Erika Blanc a chance to shine as heroic resistance fighter Denise.
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