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After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier (Alain...
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Lost Command (aka Les Centurions) is a 1966 American war film directed and produced by Mark Robson and starring Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet and Claudia Cardinale. It is based on the best-selling 1960 novel The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson. What probably was received as nothing special in 1966 plays as a major head-scratcher today: Lost Command is a perfect precursor to modern-day action films that make political subjects into strange melodramas, replacing relevant issues with personal conflicts.
The highlight of the film is its retelling of the Battle of Algiers, with Quinn in the role of the real-life para colonel Jacques Massieu. The battle scenes are well-done and realistic, especially the opening sequence, which is set in the final, desperate hours at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Lost Command: Directed by Mark Robson. With Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan. French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Mark Robson
- 1966-05
129 minutes. Certificate: PG. Original Title: Lost Command. With Franz Waxman's score booming in their ears, French paratroopers Anthony Quinn and Alain Delon get stuck into a band of Algerian...
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Lost Command tells the story of a French parachute regiment headed up by Anthony Quinn (was there any nationality The Mighty Quinn didn't play?) from their defeat in Indochina to their fight against the uprising in Algeria.
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