Commandos (1968)

Name: Commandos
Director: Armando Crispino
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Released: 1968-11-19
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Kelly, Giampiero Albertini, Marino Masé

PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

During WW2, an Italian-American commando outfit, disguised as an Italian Army unit, is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.

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Lee Van Cleef

MSgt. Sullivan
Jack Kelly

Capt. Valli
Giampiero Albertini

Aldo
Marino Masé

Italian Lt. Tomassini
Götz George

Oberleutnant Rudi
Pier Paolo Capponi

Corbi
Ivano Staccioli

Rodolfo - Radio Man
Marilù Tolo

Adriana
Joachim Fuchsberger

Oberleutnant Heitzel Agen - Professor

(as Akim Berg)
Heinz Reincke

Offizier Hans
Helmut Schmid

Sgt. Miller
Otto Stern

Sgt. Braumann
Pier Luigi Anchisi

Riccio
Gianni Brezza

Marco
Duilio Del Prete

Bruno

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21 August 2004 | graeylin

Standard low budget war movie

I too picked up Commandos in the budget bin. The movie itself was decent...acting a bit over the top from some of the players, the plot very predictable, and the ending a bit smarmy, intent on teaching us a nice lesson about the horrors of war.

The worst part of the film were the technical details. The US Army dropping paratrooper commandos behind enemy lines prior to Operation Torch (factual error... US Airborne troops were no where near ready for a raid prior to Torch). The obvious use of the 1944 M3 Grease Gun as the weapon of choice for the commandos, a weapon which didn't even see North Africa, let alone North Africa in 1942, the year before it made it to Army usage.

One can forgive the use of US Chaffee and Walker Bulldog tanks repainted in German Afrika Tan (after all, Patton did too), but too many errors upon errors crept into the movie to make it truly enjoyable. For 99 cents and a Saturday afternoon, it will serve. As a great movie, it falls far short.

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Hopefully, they were wearing their Italian badges of rank more properly than than as yanks. Captains bars are never worn centered on the epaulet of a dress uniform. Only a General's star is ever worn centered at this location. All others are worn out on the sewed-down part. If Italians were dropped behind American lines as a "captain" was wearing his that way, they would have been suspect immediately.

Alternate Versions

West German theatrical version was cut by approx. 26 minutes to tighten the pacing. The VHS release from Toppic was cut even more (additional 13 minutes) to use shorter (and thus cheaper) tapes.