The Last Blitzkrieg

Year: 1959
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Van Johnson, Dick York

The Last Blitzkrieg is a 1959 World War II film produced by Sam Katzman and filmed at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam for a Columbia Pictures release. Arthur Dreifuss directed Van Johnson and Columbia contract stars Dick York and Kerwin Mathews in a fictional account on Operation Grief in the Battle of the Bulge. Technical advisor to the film was Major John W. McClain who was a company commander with the 23rd Infantry.

Several American GIs plan an escape from a German Prisoner of War camp. One of them, Sgt Richardson is actually a German named Lt Von Kroner who is working undercover spying on the prisoners and polishing up his American English. Reporting an imminent escape to the Camp Commandant to prevent their deaths, Von Kroner is told he is being removed from the camp as part of a top secret project gathering all fluent English speaking members of the Wehrmacht for an unstated reason.

Von Kroner is sent to a German castle with others for Operation Grief, called "Operation OK Butch" in the film where they will dress in American uniforms and spearhead the Ardennes Offensive by committing sabotage, confusing enemy forces and seizing key objectives for the attacking German

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