Hell Raiders

TV Movie
1969
Not Rated
1h 20m

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U.S. Army demolition squad on a mission to destroy records in an evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of the 1958 film "Suicide Battalion".U.S. Army demolition squad on a mission to destroy records in an evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of the 1958 film "Suicide Battalion".U.S. Army demolition squad on a mission to destroy records in an evacuated headquarters as German forces advance in Italy; remake of the 1958 film "Suicide Battalion".

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3.5/10

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Trivia
The seventh of director Larry Buchanan eight films for Azalea Pictures (but the last to be filmed, in January 1968), and the only non-horror/sci-fi feature.

Goofs
The German soldiers are all using either American (M1 and M1 carbine), British (Lee Enfield SMLE) or Russian (Tokarev) rifles. The only German weapon seen is the Nazi officer's Luger.

Connections
Remake of Suicide Battalion (1958)

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1/10

Awful

Wow. Found it on Movieplex Echoes of War. Let's see. First the two officers, Agar and Webb, are way too old. The Uniforms seem to be a hodgepodge of Vietnam-era and WWII/Korean War-era clothing. The Germans at first seem to be carrying Gewehr 41(W)semi-auto loaders, but then the German soldier who is watching the "squad" take 10 and shoots the stereotypical young and scared soldier is using what appears to be an early wood-stocked model of the FN91, a post war rifle.

Constant battle sounds that are looped, the American weapons, when they fired, (M1s, M1-carbines, .45 pistols, etc) only fire one round, though semi-automatic. This was due to the film makers evidently not using blank adapters in their weapons. When they show the Americans firing, each fires a round, and then the action cuts to the Germans. As we watch the Germans, we hear intense American firing.

When a German soldier is firing at the squad with an American .30 caliber machinegun, they move to a close up of him as he shakes the weapon and you hear the firing. Funny, he continued to shake as the firing stops then starts again.

I could go on, but after about 30 minutes, I had had enough. I can't believe I wasted so many electrons watching this horrid excuse of a movie.