Fighter Attack

Fighter Attack is a 1953 American World War II film directed by Lesley Selander. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Joy Page and J. Carrol Naish. It reunited Hayden and Selander they had worked together on the film Flat Top 1952. The film is set in Nazioccupied Italy and involves a U.S. fighter pilots last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it after he is shot down in enemy territory.

Bruno is afraid of Nazi retaliation if Steve is found with them. When he finds the tunnel, Steve, with Ninas help, convinces the others, including village priest Father Paolo, to help him destroy it. Father Paolo reveals that he has been hiding George Patterson. Before the attack can take place, jealous partisan Aldo Arthur Caruso betrays the band to the Germans because Steve is in love with Nina, but is killed himself. The group escapes an ambush and retreats to their cabin hideout.The next morning, while Steve and George prepare to blow up the tunnel, American aircraft overhead are alerted to its location when Steve lights a flare. While the aircraft bomb the ammunition dump, the Italians attack a German artillery unit, turning the guns on the tunnel, destroying it, but Bruno is killed. Father Paolo and others help Steve and George escape in a small boat, with Steve promising to come back for Nina. As Steve ends his story, the new priest show him that Nina is still alive the two lovers kiss and embrace. ........

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