A year after starring in the first Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford jumped right into this role. He’s a hot to trot military commander-set out with a mission to blow up a bridge in enemy territory (Germans). For the times, the special effects were pretty good. The music sounds almost exactly the same as the music from Star Wars (or ET at times!)…and in some scenes, I almost expected to see a wookie or ET pop into view!
The best part of the movie is the ending. The last line of the movie leaves the viewer in a chuckle. There are a few classic scenes throughout the movie, like when the explosives expert infaltrates the german supply shop. He needs a dolly to carry out crates of bomb material, and so he walks over to the german floor manager and grabs the dolly. Ignoring the managers abrupt german reprimands, he flips the guy the bird, and walks off with it anyways! F-U-N-N-Y!!!
My favorite quote of the movie paraphrased as follows “We better take off like ducks in a lightning storm” said by one of the Brits in the movie. I hadn’t heard that one before.
