Escape to Athena (1979)
Produced by David Niven's son this film stars David Niven, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree and Elliott Gould. During 1944 in Greece a POW camp commanders plans to loot ancient treasure are hindered by his prisoners, his superiors and the resistance.
This is a fairly light war film which relies on star power and comic relief to get by. There are some really nice sequences in the opening moments of the film which are shot using a helicopter but sadly the rest of the film does not live up to the early promise. In the end this is a watch-able if not especially funny film.
3/5 not the greatest ww2 action film out there.
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