Film · Action, War
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
- Director
- Umberto Lenzi
- Writers
- Dario Argento, Eduardo Manzanos, Rolf Grieminger
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Release date
- August 12, 1969
- Original title
- La legione dei dannati
Cast
Jack PalanceCharley MacPherson
Wolfgang PreissColonel Ackerman
Curd JürgensGeneral Von Reilow- Thomas HunterKevin Burke
- Claudio UndariRaymond Stone
Helmuth SchneiderSam Schrier
Guido LollobrigidaTom Carlyle
Aldo SambrellKarim Habinda
Lorenzo RobledoBernard Knowles
Bruno CorazzariFrank Madigan
Diana LorysJanine
Franco FantasiaMarc Schiwers
Gérard HerterLieutenant Hapke- Mirko EllisCaptain Adler
Luis InduniPierre
John StacyBritish General
Antonio Molino Rojosoldato Albert Hank
Guillermo MéndezMarquis' contact in village (uncredited)- William ConroyGerman soldier
