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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767881258
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767881257
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 25, 2002
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 44538
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-05
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In "Lost Command", Anthony Quinn plays Colonel Raspeguy, a French paratrooper of peasent origins who finds himself caught up in the battles of the dying French empire. The film begins in May 1954 as Giap's Communist Vietminh overrun the French positions around Dien Bien Phu and capture most of the garrison. After leaving a POW camp, Raspeguy heads back to France desperate to find a new command and a chance at glory. He finds it in a horrific guerilla conflict in Algeria.
"Lost Command" is ... Read More
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This movie was shot in Spain, and it was being filmed just before the classic Gillo Pontecorvo behemoth THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966). It was released first but it has been overshadowed by the more popular epic for over 40 years. One of the problems it had was that the actual history regarding the Algerian fight for independence received the "Hollywood" treatment--complete with well-known actors and a "Love Story".
THE LOST COMMAND (1966) was directed by Mark Robson, who had given us several ... Read More
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This is a pretty good film, although from a historical point of view it misses a few important points about the conflict in Algeria.
The director's intent was clearly to show how a good soldier (LTC Raspeguy) becomes compromised in his efforts to stop a terror war in the French colony. The more dangerous and extreme the actions of the terrorists the more Raspeguy looks the other way when his soldiers take extreme steps in response. A man of physical courage, Raspeguy fails to invoke moral courage ... Read More
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After losing his command in Vietnam, the Anthony Quinn character is given another chance in Algiers. The plot has an interesting twist in a friend who defects and that along with Mr. Quinn's performance, and the battle action, save it from mediocrity.
This movie, based somewhat on a true story, is also a classic study in desert counterinsurgency, a topic not often explored in war movies. In that respect, a few who enjoy combat movies with an unconventional warfare twist will enjoy this one ... Read More
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This an extremly well edited film. It is the only movie that I know of that covers this period. I first saw it when I was a grunt in Vietnam. All of my fellow combat Marines loved it!
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