The McKenzie Break
The McKenzie Break is a 1970 British war drama film starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Scotland. The Nazi German POWs are led by the charismatic and ruthless Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem). Filmed in DeLuxe Color, the picture was directed by Lamont Johnson,
Plot
At the McKenzie prisoner of War (POW) camp in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem) – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s rigidly by-the-book commanding officer, Major Perry (Ian Hendry). British Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jack Connor, an Irishman seconded from the Royal Ulster Rifles. a former star crime reporter during peacetime, is in hot water (again) for various off-duty indiscretions. His patron, General Kerr (Jack Watson), bails him out - in return for sending him to Camp McKenzie to learn what else might be behind the escalating uprisings beyond Perry's niggling authoritarianism.
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author | William W. Norton |
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contentLocation | Scotland |
director | Lamont Johnson |
editor | Tom Rolf |
events | World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | army intelligence british army british army intelligence british army intelligence corps british soldier captain jack commanding officer crime reporter depth charge escalate escape plan force injured intelligence officer kapitän zur see kriegsmarine luftwaffe maximum effort meet motor torpedo boat prisoner of war rescue royal navy royal ulster rifles search torpedo boat u-boat uprise |
musicBy | Riz Ortolani |
producer | Arthur Gardner Jules V. Levy |
productionCompany | Brighton Pictures Levy-Gardner-Laven |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | urban war |