Escape To Athena is of those great seventies adventure films - ideal as you don't have to think too hard! It has a great cast, not overtaxing themselves, but enjoying what they're doing. Its ideal to sit back in your chair and just go along for the ride!
Hitlers plan to loot a treasure-laden Greek island is underway. A prison camp is built where the inmates dig up priceless art under the eyes of the Austrian commandant Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore). Zeno (Telly Savalas), the island‘s resistance leader and Eleana (Claudia Cardinale) scheme to defeat the occupiers. Leading a group of freedom fighters, they clash with the Nazis as they try to loot, but end up saving the lives of the condemned prisoners and monks in the mountaintop monastery.
Its packed full of 1970s TV and movie stars, and is a great romp, I recommend Escape To Athena to anyone!
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