Commandos

Starring:Lee Van Cleef, Jack Kelly, Giampiero Albertini, Marino MasÃ©, GÃ¶tz George, Pier Paolo Capponi, Ivano Staccioli, MarilÃ¹ Tolo, Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Reincke, Helmut Schmid, Otto Stern, Pier Luigi Anchisi, Gianni Brezza, Duilio Del Prete, Emilio Marchesini, Biagio Pelligra, Lorenzo Piani, Giacomo Piperno, Romano Puppo
Director: Armando Crispino
Studio: Essex
Product Type: DVD

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Love it

Guyver, Vol. 3: The Lost Number Commandos
Starring: Guyver
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Love it.......2007-04-05

Guyver is my all time fav Anime. This dvd is awesome. I already seen all 26 eps. Everythng just now is gonna get started, and gonna get way better. make you to get this as well as vol 1-2 for your collection. Also you might wanna get vol 2 with the collectors box while you can

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A good kind of war propaganda--lessons kids should know
Commandos Strike at Dawn
this movie was made in 1942 off Vancouver Island
Muni, WWII & Tommy-Guns; what more could you want!
limp war drama

Commandos Strike at Dawn
Starring: Paul Muni , Anna Lee , Lillian Gish , Cedric Hardwicke , and Ray Collins
Director: John Farrow
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ASIN: B00008R9M4
Release Date: 2003-05-13

Description

Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into action when his village is occupied by the Nazis.

Customer Reviews:

A good kind of war propaganda--lessons kids should know.......2005-12-27

As a dad, I found this film, though dated and quaint, both a stirring old war movie that boys will like as well as a good opportunity to teach some strategic realities. There are bad people in the world, they make promises and break them and they strive to enslave good people; for the sake of civilization good people often need to do otherwise bad things like fight and even kill. Rough stuff, but this is the fallen nature of this world.

Commandos Strike at Dawn.......2005-05-30

Hollywood's first reaction to the United States' entry into World War II usually took one of two forms. In the Pacific Theater the movie typically chronicled a valiant, but doomed, defense. Wake Island and Bataan were popular movies of early defeat. When Hollywood turned its attention to the European Theater its early movies celebrated indigenous resistance against Nazism by the intrepid citizens of nations like Czechoslovakia, or, in the case of COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN, Norway.
Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, a soft-spoken, pacifistic civil servant whose initial response to the German occupation of the small town he lives in is rather detached. "We civilians," he explains, haven't a right to interfere and oppose the military occupation. "This is not exactly our line." Of course, the occupiers are busy rounding up suspected subversives, imposing their doctrine in the local schools, and confiscating personal property for use in the Fatherland. Before long Toresen realizes that `we must learn from them to become gangsters and thugs.' When Toresen discovers a military airfield being built nearby, he plans to sail to England and organize a commando force to destroy it before it becomes operational.
Muni gives a typically good, understated performance as a gentle man caught in vicious times. Although it contains a quisling or two, COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN fulfills its purpose - explaining to Americans why we fight and generally ennobling the heroic freedom fighters in Nazi occupied Europe. A strong recommendation for this early entry in World War II movies.

this movie was made in 1942 off Vancouver Island.......2004-03-19

This movie was made in 1942, and made use of the HMCS Prince David which was on leave from thrashing around in the Aleutians looking for the Japanese. My father was an officer on that ship at the time, and thoroughly enjoyed the cast, especially Sir Cecil Hardwicke. I've watched the movie, and of course it is propaganda, it was made in 1942. That is part of its charm. Remember that at the time, no one knew who would win the war. Vancouver Island makes a good stand in for Norway, and Paul Muni is some brave! It is superior propaganda and a fun experience.

Muni, WWII & Tommy-Guns; what more could you want!.......2001-12-20

This WWII film does have a certain aspect of propaganda to it, but the tense storyline is riveting and will keep you glued to your chair until the last scene (which isn't exactly what you'll be expecting). Muni puts in a fine performance, as always. Overall, an enjoyable war drama.

limp war drama.......2001-03-28

Poorly, poorly directed WWII drama involving the invasion of Norway by Germans and how it affected a small Norwegian town whose sort-of burgermeister is played sympathetically enough by Paul Muni. He escapes to England by boat to marshall commando forces to liberate his town and destroy a planned airfield. A Hollywood Norwegian is something to hear and see, women in embroidered bonnets and shawls and men with bleach blonde hair talking about the miracle of spawning salmon. The action scene, the destruction of the airfield, had enough pyrotechnics to be exciting, but the director chose to sit way back and watch it, making the whole enterprise impossibly dull.

Commandos Elite Special Forces: Attack on Terrorism

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Great Product at a Low Price

Commandos Elite Special Forces: Attack on Terrorism
Starring: Commandos Elite Special Forces 3pak
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ASIN: B000784WJU
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Customer Reviews:

Great Product at a Low Price.......2007-01-11

The packing is overdone and it has some cheap video effects, however, there is a high quality product inside.

There are three separate DVD's inside that cover:

* Badges Without Borders: Inside the Diplomatic Security Service
* The Global Fight Against Terrorism: Germany's GSG-9, Briton's
SAS, US - 75th Ranger Regiment & Delta Force, etc...
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Israel's National Border Guard Undercover Unit, etc...
* Operation Thunderbolt - The Entebbe Hostage Rescue

The documentaries are very well done and apparently were orignally produced for The Learning Channel and The History Channel. In addition to excellent video footage of training operations and historical events, there are numerous interviews with leading figures in politics, the military and law enforcement.

The "Special Bonus" feature on Entebbe is worth the cost of this set by itself.

One of those rare products that, depite it's appearance, is actually worth more than you pay for it.

Suicide Missions - Commandos (History Channel)

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Suicide Missions - Commandos (History Channel)

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ASIN: B000F6ZDJW
Release Date: 2006-04-25

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Storm Rider & Commandos
Starring: Lee Van Cleef
Director: Armando Crispino; Giancarlo Santio
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Release Date: 2004-03-07

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Terrible film overall.
Fairly Good Van Cleef
Nothing special here.

Commandos
Starring: Lee Van Cleef , Jack Kelly , Giampiero Albertini , Marino Masé , and Götz George
Director: Armando Crispino
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ASIN: B0001GH7E0
Release Date: 2004-02-17

Customer Reviews:

Terrible film overall........2006-03-06

Normally I ignore bad movies and do not review them unless thay offend me. COMMANDOS offended me. It is poorly shot, poorly directed and the "Germans" all speak perfect English. This movie has a few decent action scenes, but overall it is just a B- movie about some WW2 commandos in Africa. I watch a lot of WW2 films and this one has to be the cheapest I have ever seen. Waste of time...even for 3.00

Fairly Good Van Cleef.......2005-01-08

This Text refers to the St.Clair Vision DVD release.
St.Clair Vision have released this film in it's 2:35:1 widescreen ratio.
Not so much an anti-war film as, "there are no winners in this war" story. Picture quality is at best good though at times a little grainy.
A worthwhile purchase at a budget price, you can't beat it.
Lee Van Cleef is always worth a look.

Nothing special here........1999-12-12

As far as I know, this movie concerns some Italian-American commandos who must seize an Italian held oasis and masquerade as its garrison for two days in advance of some major American operation. Now I would have been happy if this film was a nice crackerjack action thriller. But it isn't. There's plenty of competently directed and edited action sequences and explosions, but not much style to any of it. Too bad really, there's some decent production values in this film and Lee Van Cleef stars in it. Unfortunately he's saddled with a half-baked role as hard-nosed veteran Sergeant Sullivan, haunted by flashbacks of a botched mission in Bataan, in which he was one of three survivors out of a hundred. A failure he blames on the pencil-pushing gloryhound officer who initiated it. Thus, when the inexperienced Captain Valli comes to take charge of the current mission, Sullivan is naturally wary of him. Not a bad concept, but one never too deeply explored or meaningfully resolved, just scenes of Van Cleef and Jack Kelly staring and growling at each other. Hard to believe four writers(including Dario Argento) are credited with this script. The usually fine Mario Nascimbene must have composed about five minutes of original score, not a second of which is better than monotonous. Then there are the panzers, which are post-WW2 American tanks dressed up with a desert paint scheme and Afrika Corps markings. They rumble around the background in some short sequences throughout the movie, then finally brought to bear in the big finale. And darn if they don't have more presence than most of the actors! The DVD is another D-Vision con job, most likely mastered from videotape and looking as good as it. But at least it well last a long time, right? Typical flimsy packaging and inaccurate descriptions: the disk does contain chapter stops placed roughly every 12 minutes. If anyone cares.

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Commandos Elite Special Forces: Attack on Terrorism
Starring: Commandos-Elite Special Forces
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Release Date: 2001-11-06

World War II Movies - The North Star/Commandos/Five for Hell

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World War II Movies - The North Star/Commandos/Five for Hell
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Release Date: 2005-08-24

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Some good, some bad, and some ugly

Commandos
Starring: Jack Kelly
Manufacturer: Digiview Productions
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Product Description

Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan. They are forced to set aside their differences to lead their inexperienced troops to victory.

Customer Reviews:

Some good, some bad, and some ugly.......2006-05-31

I've seen a handful of Spaghetti Westerns, but I've never seen a Spaghetti World War II film. Given that Italy was on the losing end of that particular conflict, I was curious to see how they would portray the event.

As it turns out, COMMANDOS is a relatively interesting war film -- if a little lacking in substance. It's tense in places and exciting enough that I never felt bored. There are better war films out there, but there are also worse.

During WWII, the Allies are putting together a very special raid. The US Army has assembled a band of Italian-Americans -- all literate in Italian, and all knowing enough to reasonably pass for Italian solders. The mission is to parachute into the northern Africa desert and take possession of a critical oasis. Seems simple enough. Except on the eve of the mission, the commander who was supposed to lead is replaced by a man with a lot of desk-bound experience, but no practical knowledge.

This infuriates second-in-command Lee Van Cleef (DEATH RIDES A HORSE and "the bad" in THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY), who was not only very close to the original commander, but loathes the fact that he will be lead by an inexperienced yahoo. In a previous mission, Van Cleef was nearly killed because of a know-nothing commander's bungling. His determination to prevent history from repeating itself is what fuels Van Cleef's quietly bubbling anger.

Compared to other, more spectacular files of the genre, COMMANDOS does look a little on the cheap side. But by relegating most of the action to the eponymous commandos, the director is able to wring a lot of tension out of very little money. The film's most intense moments are split between the initial commando raids and the subsequent scenes in which the squad is desperately trying to fool passing convoys into believing that they are indeed all members of the Italian army.

I don't have much to say about the movie, because at the end of the day there isn't much to it. It makes for exciting and entertaining viewing, but not much to think about afterwards. There are numerous attempts to humanize both sides of the conflict and to make the commando's prisoners of war come across as sympathetic characters. And while these moments are successful, they aren't especially original either. Which pretty much sums up my opinion of the film's entirety.

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Ransom stinks/Desert merely smells

Ransom Money / Desert Commandos
Starring: Ken Clark , Horst Frank , Jeanne Valérie , Carlo Hinterman , and Howard Ross
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Manufacturer: Dollar Entertainment
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ASIN: B0007P0YK4
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Customer Reviews:

Ransom stinks/Desert merely smells.......2005-04-26

Why are these two movies packaged as one DVD? They both take place in hot dry places? Is that any reason to put them together?

RANSOM MONEY (no stars): Contrary to the credits and description on the package Ralph Meeker and Charles Bronson are NOT in the movie. Really! But Broderick Crawford is. There must have been a mix up with another kidnap movie. The movie on the DVD is very very stupid. The kidnapping is unbelievable. The intricate advance set ups with electronic wizardry and wild goose chasing just consumed film and confused the plot. Lots of padded footage, very bad lighting, inconsistent details. Filmed on location in Arizona and Las Vegas and showing them at their worst. In rotten color.

DESERT COMMANDOS (2 stars): Started off okay in Nazi Germany with a plot to kill the Allied leaders in Casablanca. 5 commandos are picked for their ability to speak English. One is Ken Clark who looks German-Nordic or like someone from Minnesota. They are dropped in the desert over 100 miles (why so far?) from Casablanca and meet a beautiful "Arab" woman who is their guide. 2 of them are killed on the way. They meet inept Arab tribesmen and take their clothing. They meet inept Allied soldiers and take their clothing. But the Allied soldiers knew in advance because one of the commandos is a spy. Yet they let the commandos continue with their mission instead of arresting or killing them on the spot. Later the Allied soldiers decide to arrest the commandos and must wage a gun battle that results in the loss of several Allied lives--kinda stupid? And the ending is a "surprise". Filmed on location in North Africa and with pretty good actors. This could have been a decent WW2 movie if the scriptwriter wasn't so inept. Hot, sunny color film.

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