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Oakmont Productions was a company that specialized in WW2 action films, in the 1960s. Their formula was built around using a moderately priced American actor (usually a tv actor) as the star, and a script filled with action and daring.
View full company info for Oakmont Productions. 1. Hell Boats (1970) PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, War. 5.5. Rate this. An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum. The raid echoes Operation Jericho, a combined RAF– Maquis raid which freed French prisoners from Amiens jail in which the Mosquitos took part.
Attack on the Iron Coast is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Anglo-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five-picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden and Maurice Denham.
Attack on the Iron Coast is a 1967 British-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden and Maurice Denham.
Hell Boats is a 1970 Technicolor British war film directed by Paul Wendkos that was filmed in Malta. It stars James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Ronald Allen [1] in a story about British Motor Torpedo Boats in the Mediterranean in World War II. [2] . It was the last film made by Oakmont Productions, a branch of Mirisch Films. [3] .
This was the first in a series of war movies made by Oakmont productions in the late 1960s. The film is loosely based on the St. Nazaire raid or Operation Chariot where an obsolete ship was filled with explosives in the bow and rammed into a German dry dock on the French coast during World War 2.
