1968 - IN ENEMY COUNTRY, war movie junk from Universal Studios

 Not much fun to write up or even watch for that matter.  In Enemy Country is the kind of mediocre stuff Universal Studios churned out during the 1960's.  The other major studios, Warner Brothers, MGM, 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures for that matter certainly provided plenty of crap to the movie going public.  However Universal had a special place in Hollywood where their roster of contract performers and technicians made film after film for theaters or television.  These films all looked the same and the quality was about the same in any venue, mediocre.

 

 

Be it crummy musicals like Flower Drum Song or Thoroughly Modern Millie,  unfunny comedies  such as Tammy and the Doctor, or Fluffy this was all very undemanding stuff to put it nicely.  Universal was especially adept at lame westerns.  He Rides Tall,  Bullet for a Badman, Shenandoah and Gunpoint pop into mind to name just a few.  Hitchcock did some of his worst work for Universal towards the end of his career.  This was also the studio that pioneered the cheapo made for television films that always seemed to be on television almost like an out of control plague.

In Enemy Country is a very boring war film with most of it shot on the back lot.  The plot has three Allied Intelligence officers going undercover in Germany to steal a new torpedo which is so powerful it will disrupt the invasion of Normandy.  They are assisted by a beautiful woman who is a deep cover spy married to a German officer.  The talk in this film is endless for the most part.  There are a couple of action scenes but it's just too little too late by the time you get to the end of the picture.   The cast is that familiar bunch of actors that constantly turned up in Universal's films, Tony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell,  Michael Constantine, John Marley, Milton Selzer, Tige Andrews and Virginia Christine.  I literally grew up watching these actors.

The film was written by Edward Anhalt and Sy Bartlett, the running time is 107 minutes.