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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|1968 film by Armando Crispino}}<br />
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| name = Commandos<br />
| image = Commandos-italian-movie-poster-md.jpg<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption = <br />
| native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --><br />
| director = [[Armando Crispino]]<br />
| writer = <br />
| screenplay = {{plainlist|* Lucio Battistrada<br />
* Armando Crispino<br />
* [[Menahem Golan]]<br />
* Stefano Strucchi<br />
* [[Dario Argento]]<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| story = {{plainlist|*Don Martin<br />
* [[Artur Brauner]]<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| based_on = {{Based on|A short story|Menahem Golan<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| producer = {{plainlist|*Alfonso Sansone<br />
* Artur Brauner<ref name="filmportal">{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/himmelfahrtskommando-el-alamein_ea43d4a728255006e03053d50b37753d|work=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein|accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref>}}<br />
| starring = {{plainlist|*[[Lee Van Cleef]]<br />
* [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]]<br />
* [[Joachim Fuchsberger]]<br />
* [[Götz George]]}}<br />
| cinematography = Benito Frattari<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
| editing = Daniele Alabiso<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
| music = [[Mario Nascimbene]]<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
| production_companies = {{plainlist|* P.E.C.<br />
* C.C.I.<br />
* [[CCC Film]]<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| distributors = {{plainlist|*Columbia Filmgescellschaft mbH<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1968|11|19|Italy|1969|8|8|West Germany}}<br />
| runtime = 112 minutes<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
| country = {{plainlist|*Italy<br />
*West Germany<ref name="filmportal" />}}<br />
| language = <br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
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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 (actor)|Jack Kelly]] and directed by [[Armando Crispino]].<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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 (actor)|Jack Kelly]]), has several soldiers with special training.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Lee Van Cleef]] as Sgt. Sullivan<br />
* [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]] as Captain Valli<br />
* [[Giampiero Albertini]] as Aldo<br />
* [[Marino Masé]] as Italian Lt. Tomassini<br />
* [[Götz George]] as [[Oberleutnant]] Rudi<br />
* [[Pier Paolo Capponi]] as Corbi<br />
* [[Romano Puppo]] as Dino<br />
* [[Ivano Staccioli]] as Rodolfo, Radio Man<br />
* [[Marilù Tolo]] as Adriana<br />
* [[Joachim Fuchsberger]] as [[Oberleutnant]] Heitzel Agen (called "Professor")<br />
* [[Heinz Reincke]] as [[Offizier]] Hans<br />
* [[Helmut Schmid]] as [[Sergeant]] Miller<br />
* [[Otto Stern]] as [[Sergeant]] Braumann<br />
* [[Pier Luigi Anchisi]] as Riccio<br />
* [[Gianni Brezza]] as Marco<br />
* [[Duilio Del Prete]] as Bruno<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Euro War]]<br />
* [[War film|War Film]]<br />
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==Release==<br />
''Commandos'' was released in Italy on 19 November 1968.<ref name="filmportal" /> It was released in West Germany as ''Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein'' in several cities on 8 August 1969.<ref name="filmportal" /><br />
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==Reception==<br />
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" <ref name="mfb">{{cite magazine|title=Commandos|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|year=1972|volume=39|issue=456|pages=68–69|first=Richard|last=Combs}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0062819|title=Commandos}}<br />
*{{AllMovie title|10535|Commandos}}<br />
*{{Rotten Tomatoes|id=commandos|title=Commandos}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Commandos (Film)}}<br />
[[Category:1968 films]]<br />
[[Category:1968 war films]]<br />
[[Category:North African campaign films]]<br />
[[Category:Italian World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:German World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in deserts]]<br />
[[Category:West German films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Armando Crispino]]<br />
[[Category:Macaroni Combat films]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Dario Argento]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Mario Nascimbene]]<br />
[[Category:Films shot in Almería]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Menahem Golan]]<br />
[[Category:1960s Italian films]]<br />
[[Category:1960s German films]]</div>Bot