Following orders, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his men are forced to stand aside and do nothing when a group of accused Nazi collaborators are summarily executed in a recently liberated French village. Among the condemned is the father of Marie Marchand (Marisa Pavan),who after witnessing the execution becomes hysterical and runs off into the countryside. When it is belatedly proven that Marie's father was innocent, Saunders is assigned to bring her back--not to make amends, but because the girl knows the location of a German tank emplacement. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi