I'm surprised everyone involved in this pro-Soviet propaganda didn't end up getting blacklisted. It's nothing less than a miracle that a ''star of the NY stage" as Peck is billed here in his debut went on to have an actual film career.
I get it, Hollywood pumped out crapola like this to get rubes in the Midwest feeling fuzzy about our allies on the Eastern Front in the fight against Hitler. But 15 minutes after the war ended this film should have been incinerated for heating fuel.
Badly shot on a sound stage and about as exciting as catching malaria in a trench, this movie is completely forgettable.