Watched MASSCARE IN ROOM today,highly recommended with a brilliant cast including Richard Burton,John Steiner and Leo McKern,and including a great Morricone score.
The story documents the Gestapo reprisal of murdering 320 Italians in retialiation for 32 German soldiers killed by resistance fighters.It immediately dawned on me (remembering Christopher Fraylings audio commentary on the DUCK YOU SUCKER dvd) that the murder of the Mexican revolutionaries including Juan's(Rod Steiger) 6 son's in the caves is of course a reference to the 1944 cave massacre in Rome.