A tough officer recruits and trains a band of 12 convicts for a mission to prevent a German plot to develop nerve gas and rescue the captive scientists working on the project. Second World War action adventure, starring Telly Savalas and Ernest Borgnine.

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.