B-Movies get a bad rap. People feel B-Movie means Bad Movie, but that is not the case. A B-Movie was a film made to be used as a companion to the main attraction in a double feature. Many B-Movies are really good little films. They are just not big Hollywood features!
Alpha Video has been rescuing these old B films and giving them a home video release they deserve. One of the new B movies getting it's releases is a 1960s gem Pattern for Plunder.
The film follows 3 ex-Navy frogmen; bank clerk Bill Webb, nightclub pianist Pru Lawson, and drifter Dave Newton are called back into action by their former commander Nick Rawlings. He needs there help in recovering a cache of Nazi gold hidden by notorious SS kommandant Heinrich Von Kreisling. An even split the four men would be set for life. They join up with Helene Bretton, a sexy French spy seeking revenge on Kreisling for her mother's death.
The screenplay is fast paced action story. The actors do a tremendous job, led by Keenan Wynn and Ronald Howard. The direction if John Ainsworth is a masterful job! This release is a great companion piece to earlier Alpha Video release of a John Ainsworth directed film One Eyed Soldiers even though he used the name Jean Christophe.
The film is presented in full screen format. There is some imperfection in the picture. But I feel the audio and video quality is not bad for a B movie from 1963. These films were not really supposed to survive. It's amazing we have copies of them at all!
So if this B Movie sounds like something you would like to check out, by all means head over to Oldies.com and pick up your copy today.
Moral Rating: Mild violence
Genre: action, adventure
Length: 80 minutes
DVD Released: 2018
DVD Rating: B
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