Highway to Battle is a 1961 British second feature ('B') thriller film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Gerard Heinz and Margaret Tyzack. It was written by Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard and produced by The Danzigers.
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Plot
Before the Second World War, a Nazi party member starts to have misgivings about the Nazis' plans. He attempts to defect to England, but is chased by the Gestapo.
Cast
Gerard Heinz as Constantin
Margaret Tyzack as Hilda
Ferdy Mayne as Zeigler
Dawn Beret as Gerda
Peter Reynolds as Jarvost
Vincent Ball as Ransome
George Mikell as Brauwitz
John Gabriel as Carl
Robert Bruce as editor
Robert Crewdson as Newmens
Hugh Cross as official
Jill Hyem as stewardess
Cavan Malone as Hoffman
Bernadette Milnes as bar girl
Richard Shaw as Franz
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A minor contribution to the current resurgence of films about the Nazi horror. But the plot, though completely superficial, is trimly tailored and does suggest a little of the pressure under which Germans of conscience laboured in the pre-war period. The climax, with Brauwitz's suicide and Gerda's volte-face, is hardly convincing. But Gerard Heinz and Margaret Tyzack do their best by the sketchily-written roles of Constantin and his wife. Nazi thuggery is kept down to a minimum and the direction has one or two telling moments."