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1965 film by Maury Dexter

The Naked Brigade

Directed by	Maury Dexter
Written by	Albert J. Cohen Irwin Winehouse A. Sanford Wolfe
Produced by	Albert J. Cohen
Starring	Shirley Eaton Ken Scott Mary Chronopoulou
Cinematography	Aristeidis Karydis-Fuchs
Edited by	Eleftherios Siaskas
Music by	Menelaos Theofanidis
Production company	Boxoffice Attractions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	April 1, 1965 (1965-04-01)
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Greece United States
Language	English

The Naked Brigade is a 1965 Greek-American war film directed by Maury Dexter and starring Shirley Eaton, Ken Scott and Mary Chronopoulou. The screenplay concerns a British girl who becomes trapped on Crete during World War II.

Plot

During the German invasion of Crete in 1941, a British girl is trapped on the island. Eventually she joins the resistance fighters against the Nazis.

Cast

Shirley Eaton as Diana Forsythe
Ken Scott as Christo
Mary Chronopoulou as Katina
John Holland as Maj. Hamilton
Sonia Zoidou as Athena
Kostas Baladimas as Manolakakis
Gikas Biniaris as Stavros Karrayiannis
Christoforos Himaras as Spyros Karrayiannis
Patrick Kavanaugh as Lt. Bentley
Sokratis Korres as Lefteris Karrayiannis
Karl Nurk as Professor Forsythe
Nikos Papakonstantinou as Major Heilmann
Clive Russell as Cpl. Reade
Aris Vlachopoulos as Father Nicholas
Eleni Zafeiriou as Sofia
Zannino as Yannis Karrayiannis

Production

The film was shot in Greece.

See also

List of American films of 1965

References

BFI.org
Dexter, Maury (2012). Highway to Hollywood (PDF). p. 126.

External links

The Naked Brigade at IMDb

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Films of Maury Dexter

Director

The High Powered Rifle (1960)
Walk Tall (1960)
The Purple Hills (1961)
Womanhunt (1962)
Air Patrol (1962)
The Firebrand (1962)
Young Guns of Texas (1962)
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)
Police Nurse (1963)
The Young Swingers (1963)
House of the Dammed (1963)
Harbor Lights (1963)
Surf Party (1964)
Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964)
Wild on the Beach (1965)
The Naked Brigade (1965)
Django the Condemned (1967)
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
Maryjane (1968)
The Young Animals (1968)
Hell's Belles (1969)
A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970) (uncredited)

Producer only

Frontier Gun (1958)
The 3rd Voice (1960)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
The Yellow Canary (1963)

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