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Le dernier commando

Original title: Tank Commandos
  • 1959
  • Approved
  • 1h 19m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
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Le dernier commando (1959)
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A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.

  • Director
    • Burt Topper
  • Writer
    • Burt Topper
  • Stars
    • Donato Farretta
    • Robert Barron
    • Maggie Lawrence
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    209
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    • Director
      • Burt Topper
    • Writer
      • Burt Topper
    • Stars
      • Donato Farretta
      • Robert Barron
      • Maggie Lawrence
    • 9User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Donato Farretta
    • Diano
    Robert Barron
    • Lt. Jim Blaine
    Maggie Lawrence
    • Nurse Jean
    Wally Campo
    Wally Campo
    • Pvt. Sonny Lazzotti
    Leo V. Matranga
    • Shorty
    Jack B. Sowards
    • Pvt. Todd
    • (as Jack Sowards)
    Anthony Rich
    • Pvt. Sands
    Larry Hudson
    • Capt. Praxton
    Maria Monay
    • Italian Woman
    Carmen D'Antonio
    Carmen D'Antonio
    • Teresa
    David Addis
    • Clifton
    Russ Prescott
    • Taylor
    Freddie Roberto
    • Captured Italian Traitor
    • (as Freddy Roberto)
    Jerry Lear
    • Bartender
    Fred Gavlin
    • German Soldier
    Joan Connors
    • Prostitute
    Larry Shuttleworth
    • Sergeant
    Lee Redman
    • G.I.
    • Director
      • Burt Topper
    • Writer
      • Burt Topper
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    1rlau290541

    So bad, it's good!

    Movies are meant to entertain. Tank Commandos did that for me, but not in the conventional way. In my opinion, it was so bad, it was good! I wondered if this movie was a weekend project for an amateur theatrical group that had some uniforms and weapons and too much time on their hands. One commodity they seemed to be very much short of, in addition to acting talent, however, was in FILM. This was constantly evidenced by seeing how many of their patrol they could get into the same frame of film. The concept of "don't bunch up" must have escaped these brave G.I.'s or maybe they were sick that day in Boot Camp when it was explained. Not only would a grenade or an "88" take out the whole patrol, a single rifle shot could have had at least two or three of them. Oh... and how about a little "security" when out there in the 'Badlands'? The way they lounged around in a bombed out building in the enemy town, you would have thought they were in the South Bronx. Oh... and how about noise discipline??? Three G.I.'s in a bombed out house are talking so loud about how they were going to do in two German soldiers standing outside, it's a wonder these two enemy combatants weren't on their way to Berlin by the time the plan was put into action. It was so magnificantly bad.... it was good!
    8349th Heavy Weapons Crew

    A gritty and sometimes brutal WWII movie set in the Mediterranean Theater of Operation

    Forty-five Apple, an Ammo and Demolition unit, is assigned to a Recon mission to determine how the Germans are crossing a deep river to refortify an Italian city with tanks and supplies. These combat-weary 'Demo' experts resent doing recon, taking risks and facing the dangers normally left to "mud sloshers" (Infantry). The film focuses on the experiences and reactions of two men: Pvt. Sonny Lazzotti (the group's interpreter) and Lt. Jim Blaine, their commanding officer. Later, after the secret of the hidden route is revealed, the team goes into action and you get to see demolition techniques and procedures that I believe were never before portrayed in earlier WWII movies.

    The film makes up for its lack of Star power with exceptionally realistic dialogue, performances, plot, and hard-hitting direction. "Tank Commandos" has a convincing, matter-of-fact feel to it that somehow reminds me of the Korean War movie, "Pork Chop Hill", and the very best of the TV series, Combat!
    5richardchatten

    Soldiers & Sensibility

    You don't see many tanks in this economy-sized AIP war movie (given grandeur as usual by cameraman John Nickolaus), unless you include those worn on the backs of the frogmen who sabotage the bridge used by the stock footage Axis tanks to attempt to cross a river.

    Talk being cheaper than action, there's a lot of reflection ("When this war is over I'm gonna have myself one big cry!"), while there's a cute Italian war orphan called Diano who's the subject of a song over the opening and closing credits!!

    Wally Campo plays a GI who speaks Italian, and a bit of German is spoken too; but whether it sounds as phoney as English always does when spoken in foreign-language movies I'm not in a position to confirm or deny...
    2JohnSeal

    Dull as dishwater

    You'll be hardpressed to stay focussed on this boring programmer. AIP make some decent war movies---Hell Squad, also from 1958 and also starring Wally Campo, is one--but Tank Commandos is simply not very interesting. Some good tank footage and little else.
    4JoeytheBrit

    Tank Commandos review

    A unit of WWII demolition experts find themselves increasingly called upon to carry out the work of the infantry amongst the ruins of Italy. Burt Topper's low-budget war picture is dedicated to wartime demolition experts, but until the final scene we see nothing of their expertise. Instead, we're subjected to seemingly endless scenes of third-rate actors hopelessly over-emoting as they pretend to buckle under the pressures of war. The characters are so poorly defined that they're virtually interchangeable

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    • Trivia
      Opening credits: All events, characters, firms and institutions in this photoplay are fictional and any similarity to any persons, living or dead, or to any actual events or to any actual firms or institutions is coincidental and unintentional.
    • Goofs
      The German tank is clearly a M41 Walker Bulldog, probably understandable for 1959, as likely, few actual working German Tanks would have been available at the time. A Sherman makes a later appearance, in American colours, but these were still in plentiful supply.
    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: A dedication to the courage of the demolition men
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Exiles (1961)
    • Soundtracks
      Diano
      Sung by Jo Ann Hill

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    • Release date
      • March 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Tank Commandos
    • Production company
      • El Monte Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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