Play Dirty
Play Dirty is a 1969 British war film starring Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green and Harry Andrews. It was director Andre de Toth's last film, based on a screenplay by Melvyn Bragg and Lotte Colin.
Plot
Captain Douglas is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, overseeing incoming fuel supplies for the British Eighth Army. Colonel Masters commands a special raiding unit composed of convicted criminals, and after a string of failures his commander, Brigadier Blore, orders him on a dangerous last-chance mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot, otherwise his unit will be disbanded. Masters is ordered to include a regular officer on the mission and selects Douglas, against his wishes, for his technical knowledge. Leech, a convicted criminal rescued from prison, is given operational command.
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| author | Melvyn Bragg |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Libya |
| director | André de Toth |
| editor | Alan Osbiston Jack Slade |
| events | World War II |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | £ afrika korps army colonel bound and gagged bp british army british eighth army british soldier eighth army escape plan force fuel depot gag injured italian army kill morning north africa north african campaign one by one port city pound sterling rescue royal engineers second second world war secondment string white flag world war |
| musicBy | Michel Legrand |
| producer | Harry Saltzman |
| productionCompany | Lowndes Productions Limited |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | war |