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Greece | World War Ii
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Despite some misgivings about the quality of the script, several of the cast members were still enticed to appear in the film due to the prospect of spending three months filming in scenic parts of Greece As Roger Moore put it "Even if the film turned out to be a flop I still got to spend several weeks with my family enjoying the glorious Greek sunshine in the splendid company of David Niven and nights out on the town with Telly Savalas".
To initially establish Sir Roger Moore's German character as being unaligned with the S.S., when the Nazi officers give him the Heil Hitler stiffed-armed salute, Moore returns it with a regular military salute.
The title card sets this movie in 1944, but is no more specific than that. During this movie, Major Volkmann (Anthony Valentine) shows other German officers footage of V-2 rocket attacks in London, which didn't occur until September 8th of that year. This means that the story must occur no earlier than late summer of 1944. While it would also appear that the events of the film occurred no later than October 1944, given that British forces began arriving there at that time, history was more complicated than that. Mainland Greece was "liberated" in the fall of '44, mostly by the German military's evacuation. Some of the Greek islands, on the other hand, remained under Axis control until the end of the war in Europe, including Crete (mentioned briefly by Major Vogel) and Rhodes (where much of the film was shot).
To evoke the Greek theme and setting, on American movie posters, instead of using the letter "e/E", the Greek alphabet's uppercase sigma symbol was used for that letter in the wording of the title.
Philip Locke was dubbed by Michael Sheard.
"Zeno: [following the successful destruction of the German missile base on Mount Athena] Now you can get out of the brothel business. With the Germans gone, you'll have to. Greeks... they don't pay. Eleana: Some of them don't have to."
"Major Otto Hecht: You are assuming that because a man steals from his country... he will also betray it? Professor Blake: No, that would make any tax fiddler a potential traitor."
