Victor Mature

as Sgt. David Thatcher

Leo Genn

as Sgt. Kendall

Bonar Colleano

as The Pole

Anthony Newley

as Private "Tiger" Noakes

Alfred Burke

as Capt. Ritter

Luciana Paluzzi

as Carola

George Coulouris

as Italian POW camp commandant

Sean Kelly

as Bartlett

Kenneth Fortescue

as Cpl. Johnson

David Lodge

as Patterson

Maxwell Shaw

as The Sheikh

Alan Tilvern

as Silverio

George Pravda

as German Sergeant

Percy Herbert

as 1st English Soldier

Kenneth Cope

as 2nd English Soldier

Robert Rietti

as Alberto

Martin Boddey

as SS Colonel

Andreas Malandrinos

as Italian Cook

Richard Marner

as German Colonel

Ernst Walder

as German Corporal

Peter Elliott

as Italian Officer

Julian Sherrier

as 2nd Italian Officer

Robert Bruce

as Italian Driver

Bob Simmons

as Mustapha