

“He is a military-type pigeon, now a sitting duck.”
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Directed by Melville Shavelson

Charlton Heston
Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator

Elsa Martinelli
Antonella Massimo

Harry Guardino
Sgt. Joseph Contini

Salvatore Baccaloni
Ciccio Massimo

Marietto Angeletti
Livio Massimo

Gabriella Pallotta
Rosalba Massimo

Brian Donlevy
Col. Sherman Harrington

Arthur Shields
Monsignor O'Toole