Play dirty michael caine biography

1969 film by André de Toth

Play Dirty is a 1969 British war film starring Michael Caine,^[2]Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green and Harry Andrews.

It was director Andre de Toth's last film, based on a screenplay by Melvyn Bragg and Lotte Colin.^[3]

The film's story is inspired by the exploits of units such as the Long Range Desert Group, Popski's Private Army and the SAS in North Africa during the Second World War.

Plot

During the North African Campaign in the Second World War, Captain Douglas is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee incoming fuel supplies for the British Eighth Army. Colonel Masters commands a special raiding unit composed of convicted criminals, and after a string of failures he is told by his commander, Brigadier Blore, that he must have a regular officer to lead a dangerous last-chance mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot, otherwise his unit will be disbanded.

Despite Douglas's objection