Brass Target (1978) on Netflix
PG19781h 51mActionDramaMystery
Days after V-E Day, General George S. Patton orders Nazi gold sent to Frankfurt. The train is robbed, and the thieves used a plan from Major Joe De Lucca's wartime operations.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.0/101,617 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Trailer
Plot summary
The war in Europe has just ended, and General George S. Patton orders hoarded Nazi gold moved by train to the Reichsbank in Frankfurt. The shipment never reaches the city: in a railroad tunnel, robbers use poison gas to kill fifty-nine U.S. Army military policemen and take the gold, which is valued at a quarter of a billion dollars. Patton, who toward the end of the war had argued for invading the Soviet Union, opens an investigation that points first at OSS Major Joe De Lucca, whose wartime plan for seizing the gold was used in the robbery. De Lucca begins an inquiry of his own into who took the plan and the gold.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Brass Target (1978)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The release of Brass Target in 1978 stirred fresh speculation about General George S. Patton's death, and MGM was accused of hyping the conspiracy theory to market the film; books followed, including the 2008 best-seller Target: Patton.
- No train robbery like the one in Brass Target occurred: about $2.5 billion in German gold was determined to have been pilfered in several separate thefts, most of it still missing.
