[3] The screenplay by frequent Lenzi collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and José Luis Martínez Mollá is based on a story co-authored by the director.

[5] On August 24, 1939, six friends take drinks in a suburb of Paris; Americans Brett Rosson and Ray MacDonald, the French Maurice Bernard and Fabienne Bodin, German Jürgen Dietrich, and Englishman Dick Sanders.

Fabienne has joined a French resistance cell, Ray is embedded in the RAF command as a war correspondent, and Jürgen is an officer in the German occupation force.

Brett, an agent with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), is initially ambivalent about Jim’s decision, but eventually decides to put in his requested recommendation, hoping it will help them reconnect.

The operation is successful, but the rest of the unit is killed in the process, and Jim and Maurice are forced into hiding with local French partisans.

In the final Allied push for Paris, three of the friends unknowingly cross paths as American infantry skirmish with German panzer units commanded by Jürgen.

Maurice and Jim fend off the tanks on the ground as Brett and his OSS men call in air support from a nearby hill.

Brett unknowingly kills Jürgen by firing on his command tank with a bazooka, and Jim is mortally wounded by a stray explosion.

The Monthly Film Bulletin noted that they had to "admire the resourcefulness of a relatively low-budget production which still runs to a quite respectable crowd of extras and such details as a genuine vintage fire engine in the London blitz scene" and that "taken on the level of a ripping yarn, From Hell to Victory is really quite amiable, although the routine script and direction make everything much more predictable than it need have been".