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Escape To Athena

1979, Movie, PG, 125 mins

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Before director George Pan Cosmatos graced us with his RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, he collected a bunch of big-name actors to appear in this lame WW II escape adventure. With a cast list that reads more like a "Love Boat" episode than a film, the story follows a group of inmates in a Greek POW camp run by Moore, a good-guy German who helps the movie stars/POWs escape. They hitch up with a partisan group led by Savalas and attempt to save some ancient Greek treasures from the... read more leave a comment
The Fuehrer's scheme for looting a treasure-laden island off Greece is under way. Prisoners of war labour under the eye of the camp's Austrian Commandant, Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), as they dig up priceless Greek art. Zeno, the island's resistance leader, and his woman, Eleana, a bordello madam, scheme to defeat the occupiers. Zeno and his men clash with the Germans to save the lives of condemned prisoners, and try to locate a submarine oil supply depot. If the Germans are to be defeated, they must also seek and dismantle the communications equipment on Mount Athens, which promises a blaze of action.
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Length: 01:59:35
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On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors -- and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will the schemers pull off the impossible?
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Length: 02:00:00
Posted: 11/11/2009
Year: 1979
Rated PG

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Cast
Roger Moore: Maj. Otto Hecht
Telly Savalas: Zeno
David Niven: Prof. Blake
Claudia Cardinale: Eleana
Richard Roundtree: Nat
Stefanie Powers: Dottie

 

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