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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 10:35:39 GMT
Similar plot as The Eagle Has Landed.
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
It lacks the star power of the 1976 film but as a 60s curio I rather enjoyed it, and these Euro films had effortless desert location shooting.
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Post by Reynard on Dec 6, 2017 17:22:56 GMT
I remember this being interesting and not what I expected - more like a psychological thriller. Lenzi's Battle of the Commandos sounds interesting too but haven't seen it yet.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 17:47:45 GMT
I was going to mention that one. With Jack Palance as a Scottish military guy. It's sort of a "spaghetti western" war movie.
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Post by Reynard on Dec 6, 2017 18:10:03 GMT
I was going to mention that one. With Jack Palance as a Scottish military guy. It's sort of a "spaghetti western" war movie. Are there any good official releases of these two, or is it just vhs transfer crap as usual with Italian war movies?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 18:16:42 GMT
Are there any good official releases of these two, or is it just vhs transfer crap as usual with Italian war movies? VHS transfer crap is how I watched them-however I read that the latter has shown up on European tv in better quality and I think there is at least a dvd of Desert Commandos somewhere-but may be a cut version.
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Post by Reynard on Dec 6, 2017 18:30:04 GMT
Are there any good official releases of these two, or is it just vhs transfer crap as usual with Italian war movies? VHS transfer crap is how I watched them-however I read that the latter has shown up on European tv in better quality and I think there is at least a dvd of Desert Commandos somewhere-but may be a cut version. This genre just doesn't seem to get any attention even though many other genres of Italian cinema of that time have been re-discovered at least to some degree. There seems to more releases of The Inglorious Bastards than all other Italian war movies put together. I'll have to look for more info about that Desert Commandos DVD.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 19:11:05 GMT
The uncut version I have heard about is black and white. I wonder where the film negatives are stored for these, if they still exist.
I have been watching some Umberto Lenzi pirate and adventure movies like Queen of the Seas (extremely bad copy), Triumph of Robin Hood, Sandoken, Temple of a Thousand Lights. I also like his Tomas Milian crime movies. Diverse resume.
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Post by Reynard on Dec 6, 2017 19:31:11 GMT
Lenzi always hated it that outside Italy he was for a long time mainly known as "that Cannibal Ferox guy". His best films were probably among 60s historical adventure and 70s cop action films. I haven't seen his spy movies yet. Lenzi's spaghetti westerns had potential but somehow they never turned out that great.
Temple of a Thousand Lights has curious similarities with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Lucas and Spielberg always talk about how Indys were inspired by serial movies and such, but I think it's very possible that Lenzi provided some story & visual inspiration too.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 6, 2017 21:06:07 GMT
I have only seen 008 Operation Exterminate.
I have not seen Cannibal Ferox though I may have Nightmare City somewhere.
I also watch a fair bit of Antonio Margheriti films. He did his own Raiders rip offs. Ark of the Sun God, Jungle Raiders..
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