A Prize Of Arms

Baker plays a British ex-captain cashiered for black market activities in Hamburg. In order to get his revenge on the army, he thinks up a complicated scheme for heisting the money that will accompany the troops as they take off for North Africa to resolve the Suez crisis. He has enlisted the help of Schmid and Bell in his plan, which requires that the three pose as soldiers while infiltrating the barracks for twelve hours. The carefully thought-out timetable goes haywire when one of the men gets cookhouse duty and another gets sick from an inoculation. But Baker makes off with the cash through the use of a flamethrower, only to be followed by the military police a...