Ski Troop Attack is a 1960 American war film directed by Roger Corman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra and Wally Campo.
Factor are skiing on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines in Germany's Hürtgen Forest during World War II.
[1] The film was shot in Deadwood, South Dakota in the Black Hills over ten days.
To consolidate costs, Corman's brother Gene produced another film titled Beast from Haunted Cave at the same time on the same location, and with the same screenwriter and lead actors.
[3] Michael Forest was paid $500 a week and later recalled that "what was taking place was tough on us physically.
[6] Variety liked the action sequences but found the characterization clichéd and the lack of establishing shots to be a weakness.
But the attempts at deeper meaning and characterisaton ends in cliches flying thick and fast.