Desert Commandos

Desert Commandos
Italian film poster
Attentato ai tre grandi
Directed byUmberto Lenzi
Screenplay byUmberto Lenzi
Story byUmberto Lenzi
Produced byAlberto Grimaldi
Starring
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited byEugenio Alabiso
Music byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino
Production
companies
  • PEA
  • Constantin Film
  • Films Ege
Distributed byPEA
Constantin Film
Release dates
1 December 1967 (Italy)
  • 15 March 1968 (1968-03-15) (West Germany)
Running time
96 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
  • West Germany
LanguageItalian

Desert Commandos (Italian: Attentato ai tre grandi) is a 1967 French/Italian/West German international co-production war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed. The Italian title (Attack on the Big Three) refers to a German commando group with a mission to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference.

The film is a character-based drama that focuses on the German soldiers' various drives and conflicts during encounters with Tuareg nomads, and French and American soldiers.