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'Commandos' a.k.a. 'Sullivan's Marauders' is a 1968 Italian-produced war film filmed on Sardinia starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Kelly and directed by Armando Crispino.

Plot



The film is set in the middle of World War II, and in the deserts of Africa, Sgt. Sullivan (Lee Van Cleef) puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. Sullivan, along with Dino (Romano Puppo), was one of three that survived from the Pacific War against the Japanese, although Lieutenant Freeman was killed in his last mission. Their Captain in charge of the mission, Captain Valli (Jack Kelly), has several soldiers with special training.

Cast



* Lee Van Cleef as Sgt. Sullivan

* Jack Kelly as Captain Valli

* Giampiero Albertini as Aldo

* Marino Mas as Italian Lt. Tomassini

* Gtz George as Oberleutnant Rudi

* Pier Paolo Capponi as Corbi

* Romano Puppo as Dino

* Ivano Staccioli as Rodolfo, Radio Man

* Maril Tolo as Adriana

* Joachim Fuchsberger as Oberleutnant Heitzel Agen (called "Professor")

* Heinz Reincke as Offizier Hans

* Helmut Schmid as Sergeant Miller

* Otto Stern as Sergeant Braumann

* Pier Luigi Anchisi as Riccio

* Gianni Brezza as Marco

* Duilio Del Prete as Bruno

See also



* Euro War

* War Film

Release



'Commandos' was released in Italy on 19 November 1968. It was released in West Germany as 'Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein' in several cities on 8 August 1969.

Reception



In a contemporary review in the 'Monthly Film Bulletin', Richard Comb commented that the conclusion of the film was "the kind of meaningless apocalyptic moment much favoured when international producers get together to meditate over mutual insanity in war", and that 'Commandos' was "rife with such rhetoric, interspersed with all the action cliches of the war movie and fitfully jerking its line with type"

References




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