Argent Films presents a collection of distinctive heroic World War II action headed by Hollywood superstars Mel Gibson and Richard Burton in authentic action drama finely crafted by the likes of RAMBO director George Cosmatos.Very rarely shown on TV, these Wartime accounts of Heroes fighting against the WWII Axis, from the Pacific to the African desert, are now brought together in one must-have collector's set.Attack Force Z: Mel Gibson leads a Special Forces Commando (including Sam Neil) to locate and rescue a defecting Japanese Officer who has crashed in the dense... jungle of a Japan occupied Pacific Island. Based on a real mission by Z Force, a forerunner of the S.A.S., made up mostly from Australian and British volunteers, their daring missions changed the course of the war and remains secret to this day.Massacre In Rome: Nerve-wracking dramatization by RAMBO director George P. Cosmatos, and accentuated by an electrifying score by Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, of one of the worst atrocities of the War. Richard Burton (in a career best) plays Kapler, the German Officer whose human conscience gets pitted against the sadistic might of the Reich after Hitler directly orders him to execute 335 civilians as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi soldiers by Italian Partisans. Casablanca Express: At the height of WW2, British PM Winston Churchill is covertly on his way to the then-secret Casablanca Conference with US President Roosevelt and France's General DeGaulle. To confuse the Nazis trailing him, the PM gets off his plane in Algiers and boards the Casablanca Express. When he gets kidnapped by a crack unit of Nazi Sturmtruppen, halfway across the Moroccan desert, it is down to a few, fearless, unsung heroes from the British SIS and a U.S. Marine Platoon to rescue Churchill, preventing a devastating Nazi Victory that would have changed the course of the War and the world as we know it. [show more]
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Triple bill of dramas set during the Second World War. In 'Attack Force Z' (1982) Mel Gibson stars as Captain P.G. Kelly, the young leader of an elite squad of hardcore Australian soldiers working behind the lines on a Japanese occupied island. After a plane is shot down the soldiers are sent to save any survivors but to succeed they must avoid the Japanese troops and enlist local underground operatives to help them. 'Massacre in Rome' (1973), based on the book 'Death in Rome' by Robert Katz, is set in the final days of the war as partisans plan an attack on a column of Germans in the city of Rome. Fearing that the attack might take place, Gestapo chief Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler (Richard Burton) advises his commanding officer not to order the column to march the next day. Nevertheless, the march goes ahead and 32 Germans are killed. The partisans hide out with a local priest but orders come in to exact revenge in what was to become known as the 'Massacre in Rome'. In 'Casablanca Express' (1989) Winston Churchill (John Evans) travels by train to Morocco for a meeting with Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 as the Nazis plan a paratrooper raid to kidnap him. Assigned to escort and protect the Prime Minister is a special American and Allied military intelligence detail led by commandos Alan Cooper (Jason Connery) and Captain Franchetti (Francesco Quinn).
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