Play Dirty

Sinopse

During the North African Campaign in World War II, Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is a British Petroleum employee secondment to the Royal Engineers to oversee incoming fuel supplies for the Eighth Army (United Kingdom). Colonel Masters (Nigel Green) commands a special raiding unit composed of convicted criminals, and after a string of failures he is told by his commander, Brigadier Blore (Harry Andrews), that he must have a regular officer to lead a dangerous last chance mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot, lest his unit be disbanded. Despite Douglas' objections, he is chosen for his knowledge of oil pipelines and infrastructure. Douglas is then introduced to Cyril Leech (Nigel Davenport), a convicted criminal rescued from prison to lead Masters' operations in the field.