SEVEN INTO HELL – A solved mystery

After so many years looking for this film I found it on an old Londoner video shop, I’ve paid a fortune to get it and when back home in Lisbon I realised that I already have it.
The film had another title and the director’s name was Henry Mankiewicz a pseudo name of León Klimovsky.

SEVEN INTO HELL (1968)
Also Known As:
Giugno '44 - Sbarcheremo in Normandia
Commando Attack Junio 44:
desembarcaremos en Normandía (Spain)
Directed by León Klimovsky also known as Henry Mankiewicz
Cast: Michael Rennie as Blynn, Bob Sullivan as Cliff and Guido Lollobrigida as Alan
Runtime: 96’
Country: Spain, Italy
Colour: Colour (Technicolour)
Sound Mix: Mono

Following the huge international success of Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen", Italian and Spanish directors began to crank out very similar-looking action flicks. "Commando Attack" is probably among the worst of the slew of commando movies to "grace" the late 1960s, distinguishable only because of the appearance by screen legend Michael Rennie and a superb Bruno Nicolai score.

American commandos are given three days to locate and destroy a radio station in Normandy. The "commandos" are all volunteers, mostly misfits and off-kilter types, immediately bringing to mind the dregs of the famed "Dirty Dozen".Director Klimovsky doesn't seem to care much for accuracy in any aspect of his film.
All he wants to do is deliver enough action to satisfy any blood-hungry viewer and rip-off " The Dirty Dozen" to make a fast buck as quickly as possible.
The Americans wear surplus NATO uniforms, the only accurate thing about them being the helmets. One officer is seen to bearing a post-WWII Air Force blue uniform, even though the Air Force didn't exist as an independent branch of the armed forces until WWII was over.
Americans and Germans alike are armed with modern weapons, including Beretta sub-machine guns and G3 assault rifles.
For an action-based movie, one would think the director would at least make sure his combat scenes looked decent.
Instead, Klimovsky disregards any realism. The Americans wander about the French countryside, killing off dozens of German soldiers who conveniently show up whenever the pace lags, as well as blowing up a few tanks, trucks and halftracks! And the German area command doesn't realize that enemy commandos have landed in their territory?
The German soldiers are total incompetents, who can't seem to raise, aim or fire their weapons and simply allow themselves to be mowed down by substantially smaller and insufficiently armed Allied troops.
What ought to be a climactic ending turns into a blatant Dirty Dozen rip-off, as the commandos assault a huge French château in a halftrack, shooting up the place and killing hordes of onrushing German soldiers. This sequence probably features the most unintentionally funny scenes in the movie, the first being a shot of an animated château exploding and the second being a scene of a German soldier running by the camera, his body ablaze, screaming in agony – but the fire looks face and the scream sounds fake, the whole shot just looks staged.