BATTLE OF THE COMMANDOS
synopsis
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squad can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. Because Colonel Ackerman, whose troops killed his last platoon, is the leader of the platoon in charge of the gun, McPhearson insists on trying to complete the commandos' mission.
original title: | La legione dei dannati |
country: | Italy, Spain, Germany |
year: | 1969 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Umberto Lenzi |
film run: | 93' |
release date: | IT 12/08/1969, DE 17/04/1970, FR 17/06/1970, TR 19/04/1971, ES 24/11/1971, UK 1971, DK 24/11/1980 |
screenplay: | Dario Argento, Ugo Moretti |
cast: | Jack Palance, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss, Guido Lollobrigida, Aldo Sambrell, Diana Lorys, Franco Fantasia, Gérard Herter, Mirko Ellis, Bruno Corazzari, Antonio Molino Rojo, Lorenzo Robledo |
cinematography by: | Alejandro Ulloa |
art director: | Jaime Pérez Cubero |
costumes designer: | Luciano Sagoni |
music: | Marcello Giombini |