Media Depictions
The Devil's Brigade is a 1968 film starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, and Vince Edwards, focusing on the Force's training and deployment to Italy.
Also in 1968, the film Anzio featured Peter Falk as Corporal Jack Rabinoff, who identified himself to co-star Robert Mitchum as a member of the American-Canadian 1st Special Service Force.
Battle Force(2012) - The characters are supposed to be members of the First Special Services Force sent into Sicily prior to the invasion.
Three documentaries have been made about the Force: "Black Devils" in 2000, an episode of History Channel's "Dangerous Missions" series, written produced and directed by Darryl Rehr; Daring to Die: The Story of the Black Devils, written and directed by Greg Hancock and Wayne Abbot, and Devil's Brigade, a 2006 TV miniseries produced by Frantic Films.
The comic book character Wolverine was depicted as having been a member of the Devil's Brigade in North Africa.
Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds features a character named Lt. Aldo Raine aka "Aldo the Apache" played by Brad Pitt who wears the unit's crossed arrows collar insignia and red arrowhead shoulder patch. Tarantino cited the 1SSF as an influence for Inglourious Basterds.
A book by Robert H. Adleman & George H. Walton, called The Devil's Brigade, is an autobiography and historical reference for the First Special Service Force.
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