1969 - PROBABILTA ZERO aka Probability Zero

You kind of have to love 60's and 70's Italian film making, they never meet a successful genre film that they couldn't rework and basically rip off.  The Italian film industry also had a thing about American actors in these films.  Some sort of semi famous American actor, in this case Henry Silva, would always show up in their films.

Probabilta Zero is fairly typical of these kinds of films.  It's plot is clearly stolen, borrowed from The Guns of Navarone and Operation Crossbow.  Henry Silva is the military guy in charge who leads of team of commandos to a secret underground Nazi base in Norway, but probably northern Italy as the actual locations.  His team has to blow up a downed Spitfire which has a special radar system.  If the system falls into the hands of the Nazis it could change the outcome of the war etc.

 

This film actually isn't half bad.  The action is fairly good, the mountainous scenery makes a good location for filming and the whole thing is a fairly decent action flick when all is said and done.

  

The film was written by Dario Argento, Maurizio Lucidi and Giuseppe Mangione.  The director Maurizio Lucidi filmed a lot of spaghetti westerns and eurocime thrillers so he certainly knew his way around an action scene.

The running time is a quick 95 minutes.