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Plot. In Europe, days after V-E Day, General Patton ordered the hoarded Nazi gold to be sent to the Reichsbank in Frankfurt. But, before the gold shipment could arrive, a daring robbery was executed and 59 U.S. Army military policemen were killed with poison gas in a railway tunnel.
Brass Target: Directed by John Hough. With Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn. In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
- (1.5K)
- Action, Drama, Mystery
- John Hough
- 1979-03-02
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Brass Target is a 1978 American post-World War II suspense film, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan, that was produced by Berle Adams and Arthur Lewis and directed by John Hough.
Just after WWII, a bunch of baddies kill 59 American soldiers to steal $250,000,000 in Nazi gold. When General George S. Patton (George Kennedy) swears he will get to the bottom of the heist, he becomes the target of an assassin. It’s up to Major Joe De Lucca (John Cassavetes) to sort out matters.
- (320)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- John Hough
During the latter days of World War II, a shipment of gold is stolen. General Patton vows to find it. But it turns out that American officers are involved, and they try to stop him before he gets to them. They hire an assassin to take care of him.
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General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
