Commandos (film)
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| Directed by | Armando Crispino |
| Produced by | Alfonso Sansone Artur Brauner |
| Written by | Menahem Golan Don Martin Artur Brauner |
| Starring | Lee Van Cleef Jack Kelly |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
| Cinematography | Benito Frattari |
| Edited by | Daniele Alabiso |
| Distributed by | Heritage Enterprises |
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110 min. |
| Country | Italy West Germany |
| Language | Italian |
Commandos is an Italian "macaroni combat" war film starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Kelly and is directed by Armando Crispino.[1] It was released in Italy on 19 November 1968, and rated PG in the United States.
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Plot
It is the middle of World War II and in the deserts of Africa, Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have killed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Cpt. Valli is a young, by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base is an entomologist who is killed and then things get terrible.
After a chase from the escaped Italian prisoners, Dino (Romano Puppo) dies after being shot in Sullivan's arms, and the mission soon under order Abandon Torch begins, and they all must withdrawal to the cost of port, however most of the men want to quit the mission but Captain Valli rejects this order, unfortunately Sullivan suffers from his past issue in the Pacific when he encountered the Japanese, and he blames that six of his men died due to Valli's orders, and as such Sullivan tells to the men that Valli will get everyone killed, before Sullivan can kill Valli a German patrol soon emerges, but trouble emerges when Italian Lieutenant Tommassini (Marino Mase) reports to Heitzel Agen that the Italian's are Italian-American Commandos, a Tank Division soon heads off to stop them, however after drinking a toast, however as Sergeant Sullivan refuses to drink a huge gunfight emerges, where it costs the lives of all German and Italian-American Commandos (with the exception of Aldo (Giampiero Albertini) and one German soldier agrees to surrender in the end,) however the dead are concurrently buried afterwards, and the two together work the otherside together side by side,
Cast
- Lee Van Cleef ... MSgt. Sullivan
- Jack Kelly ... Captain Valli
- Giampiero Albertini ... Aldo
- Marino Masé ... Italian Lt. Tomassini
- Götz George ... Oberleutnant Rudi
- Pier Paolo Capponi ... Corbi
- Ivano Staccioli ... Rodolfo, Radio Man
- Marilù Tolo ... Adriana
- Joachim Fuchsberger ... Oberleutnant Heitzel Agen (Professor)
- Heinz Reincke ... Offizier Hans
- Helmut Schmid ... Sergeant Miller
- Otto Stern ... Sergeant Braumann
- Pier Luigi Anchisi ... Riccio
- Gianni Brezza ... Marco
- Duilio Del Prete ... Bruno
See also
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Commandos at IMDb
- Commandos at AllMovie
- Commandos at Rotten Tomatoes
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