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Director:
Mark Robson
Writers:
Jean Lartéguy (novel)
Nelson Gidding (writer)
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Release Date:
May 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
User Comments:
If You Liked "Zulu," You'll Like "The Lost Command" more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anthony Quinn ... Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy
Alain Delon ... Capt. Phillipe Esclavier

George Segal ... Mahidi
Michèle Morgan ... Countess de Clairefons
Maurice Ronet ... Capt. Boisfeuras

Claudia Cardinale ... Aicha
Grégoire Aslan ... Ben Saad
Jean Servais ... Gen. Melies
Maurice Sarfati ... Merle
Jean-Claude Bercq ... Orsini (as Jean-Claude Berq)
Syl Lamont ... Verte
Jacques Marin ... Mayor
Jean-Paul Moulinot ... De Guyot
Andrés Monreal ... Ahmed
Gordon Heath ... Dia
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Additional Details

Runtime:
129 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Pathécolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Red Lion more

Fun Stuff

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Factual errors: The Vietminh Commander played by Burt Kwouk is speaking Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect, and not Vietnamese. more
Quotes:
Capt. Phillipe Esclavier: Nobody goes into the village, I'm in command here and that's an order!
[takes out service pistol]
Verte: If that was you, sir, all chopped up, we'd do the same for you.
Capt. Boisfeuras: We must avenge the mutilation of our three comrades.
[turns to others]
Capt. Boisfeuras: Go!
Capt. Phillipe Esclavier: Stop!
[shoots near Capt. Boisfeuras feet]
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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
If You Liked "Zulu," You'll Like "The Lost Command", 24 July 2000
Author: Piper12

Perhaps because it came out so soon after Pontecorvo's classic "La Battaglia di Algeri" (The Battle of Algiers), "The Lost Command" got, well, lost. That's too bad, because I saw this movie only once about 20 years ago, but still recall it vividly as a surprisingly well-done action film spiced with social commentary that doesn't overwhelm the whole.

Anthony Quinn is especially believable as a hard-bitten professional soldier who manages to rise to high command in spite of his peasant birth. Alain Delon is his pretty boy right-hand and George Segal has a particularly interesting turn as an Arab serving with Quinn and Delon in Indochina at the film's beginning who is radicalized upon returning to his native Algeria and takes up arms against his former comrades.

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. Despite being well-made and underrated, this film is not often shown on television, so you'll probably have to rent it.

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