This is a pretty terrible film! (All a bit too clean basically.) It seems to be the only film of Sven Hassel's books so far (which is strange to a fan - but probably not at all strange to anyone else). SH mentions the film producer in the front cover of 'The Commissar'.

The German film "Stalingrad" and Sam Peckinpah's "Cross Of Iron" use many SH trademarks though (and they are both far superior to "Wheels Of Terror").

This is the cast list:

	Porta	Bruce Davison
	Legionnaire	David Patrick Kelly
	Capt. von Barring	D.W.Moffett
	Tiny	Jay O. Sanders
	Old Man	Keith Szarabajka
	The General	Oliver Reed
	Col. von Weisshagen	David Carradine
	Stege	Branko Vidak
	Sven	Slavko Stimac
	Bauer	Boris Komnemic
	Muller	Andrija Maricic

I've got it on video and it really is shit !! It's basically the same as the write-ups on the back of the books - You know "they were prepared to kill or be killed, prepared to fight like animals and cheat, lie and steal like the criminals they had become" blah blah blah. Well, it takes that kind of idea and uses Americans (someone needs to make a Sven film with German and Russian actors, not American or English...) and the section are all really clean (well, they get slightly muddy faces when they've been in a really hard battle).

The story doesn't really follow the book Wheels of Terror at all apart from a few episodes (Tiny fighting the Legionnaire, the episode with the Colonel getting shot by Pluto - but they use Porta instead of Pluto!!) It's all rubbish really.

It's quite easy to get an English copy on video (look in the small ads of a movie magazine) but I don't know if it was ever dubbed or subtitled in any other language.

If only someone would put the same amount of energy into a Sven film that they did with "Stalingrad" which was very authentic looking - including the right tanks (Wheels of Terror uses some old tractor or something).

Kai:- It has been available for ages - the name in Finland is "Rangaistuspartio" and there should be at least rental versions available - just go check some bigger video store. It was published 1987 or 1988 in video and it was never released in theaters. PS. It isn't quite as bad as its reputation is - the film still has some good moments. (Usually includes a lot of vodka and weapons ... )

Risto:- I know two really good films , BUT !!!! those films are made in here Finland and you and your S.H friends don’t understand at all what they speak in those films first movie are Tuntematon sotilas = Unknown soldier . Old one is better than new film what is made in somewhere in 1980-1990 and original is made in , I'm not sure maybe in 1950-1960 . And other film is Talvisota = Winter war and those films are best war films I ever see , not those Hollywood bullshit clean face toy soldiers and those "BRAVE MAN" shit !! Those films are made like real thing not like many "war "soap" films". And did you know that Stalingrad film battle where Germans stop that tank attack is filmed in Finland . If you and other S.H peoples in mail list want to see those films , I try find and made copy and send it to you . Every Independence Day we see that Tuntematon sotilas in TV , but we are Finnish and little strange folks ;-) "Perseet olalle"