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Paratroop Command is a 1959 American war film directed by William Witney, starring Richard Bakalyan, Ken Lynch and Jack Hogan. American International Pictures originally released the film as a double feature with Submarine Seahawk.

Paratroop Command
Film poster
Directed byWilliam Witney
Written byStanley Shpetner
Produced bySamuel Z. Arkoff
James H. Nicholson
Stanley Shpetner
StarringRichard Bakalyan
Ken Lynch
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Edited byRobert S. Eisen
Music byRonald Stein
Distributed bySanta Rosa Productions
American International Pictures
Release dates
February, 1959 (USA)
Running time
71 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot


Charlie is a soldier who suffers the scorn of his paratroop unit because he accidentally kills one of their own men. The film is set in World War II in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy.


Cast


As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):[1]

ActorRole
Richard BakalyanCharlie
Ken LynchLieutenant
Jack Hogan'Ace' Mason
Jimmy MurphySergeant
Jeff MorrisPigpen (as Jeffrey Morris)
James BeckCowboy (as Jim Beck)
Carolyn HughesGina
Patricia HustonAmy, a WAC
Paul BuschGerman Captain
Sydney LassickInterpreter (as Sid Lassick)
Brad Trumbull (credits as Trumball)C-47 Pilot

A full cast and production crew list is too lengthy to include, see: IMDb profile.[1]


Reception


Quentin Tarantino, an admirer of Witney's work, considers this film to be among his four best.[2] Tarantino called it "the best of American-International’s WW2 potboilers. But I think it’s even better than that. It contains a realism that sets it apart from most other WW2 movies done in that same era. So much so that it makes a lot of good and similar movies from that same time, Robert Aldrich’s Attack and Don Siegel’s Hell is for Heroes, look theatrical and stagey by comparison."[3]


References


  1. The Story on Page One credits
  2. Lyman, Rick (September 15, 2000). "Whoa, Trigger! Auteur Alert!". The Los Angeles Times.
  3. Tarantino, Quentin (6 April 2020). "I Escaped from Devil's Island". The New Beverly Cinema.






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