Commando de choc

Original title: The Quick and the Dead

1963
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1h 32m

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5.8/10

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In 1944 a patrol of American soldiers, after having been driven off their observation post by German troops, tries to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to the safety of their own lines with a partisan girls, and with the Germans in hot pursuit.

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In 1944 a squad of American soldiers takes out a German artillery observation post but is taken prisoner by an enemy patrol. Escaping with two Italian civilian women they try to evade the en... Read allIn 1944 a squad of American soldiers takes out a German artillery observation post but is taken prisoner by an enemy patrol. Escaping with two Italian civilian women they try to evade the enemy and regroup with their platoon.In 1944 a squad of American soldiers takes out a German artillery observation post but is taken prisoner by an enemy patrol. Escaping with two Italian civilian women they try to evade the enemy and regroup with their platoon.

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Near the beginning of the film. A soldier makes a long run in the open, and has what is supposed to be mortar or artillery rounds falling all around him. The explosions are within feet of him. And he somehow is able to keep running past 8 to 10 of them. Even a small mortar round landing that close to man would have cut him down the first time. Those rounds are not just explosives. Their cases splinter. Shrapnel is what usually kills. So his run would have been very short. And not survivable.

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Referenced in Alphas: The Quick and the Dead (2012)

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5/10

Pretty Much Average for the Time Period

There's really nothing remarkable about this one. It tries to be a little more realistic after the first scene than many films of the same time period, but it can't help being what it is or when it was produced. Of course, there's the ubiquitous removal of dog tags from dead comrades, making them into unknown soldiers, which is never done in real life, and other typical tropes. The hand grenade-sized explosions are probably a result of a fairly small budget, so that can be overlooked. I didn't understand in the second scene why one soldier was told to choose other soldiers to take to knock out the German observation post instead of the CO just choosing a specific squad like would have happened in real life. Taking the time period into account, I have to score it as about average.