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Ricky Schroder | ... |
Maj. Charles White Whittlesey
(as Rick Schroder)
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Phil McKee | ... |
Capt. George McMurtry
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Jamie Harris | ... | ||
Jay Rodan | ... |
Lt. Leak
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Adam James | ... |
Capt. Nelson Holderman, Co. K 307 th
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Daniel Caltagirone | ... |
Pvt. Phillip Cepeglia
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Michael Goldstrom | ... |
Pvt. Jacob Rosen
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André Vippolis | ... |
Pvt. Lipasti - Runner
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Rhys Miles Thomas | ... |
Pvt. Bob Yoder (sharpshooter)
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Arthur Kremer | ... |
Pvt. Abraham Krotoshinsky
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Adam Kotz | ... |
Col. Johnson
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Justin Scot | ... |
Pvt. Omer Richards (carrier pigeons)
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Anthony Azizi | ... |
Pvt. Nat Henchman
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George Calil | ... |
Pvt. Lowell R. Hollingshead
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Wolf Kahler | ... |
Gen. von Sybel
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In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
My God, what an incredible movie it is! Reminded me so much of the similar scene in Mel Gibson's movie "We were Soldiers" when "the Company is not lost, they're just cut off" And the other scene in Pearl Harbour when the British officer says to Ben Affleck "If all Americans are like you, then God help the nation that goes to war with America!
Put all 3 movies together and you would have enough BULLSHIT to fertilise the entire Sahara Desert.
The story of the cut-off Battalion may be real enough but the movie could have done without all that American preachy jingoistic propaganda attached to it. There were audible groans in the cinema during the above-mentioned scene in Pearl Harbour (no kidding either) The Lost Battalion however is really in a class of its own .
"Americans think they are unbeatable inspired bravery . " I actually cringed and damn near puked at all the swill being spewed out throughout this diarrhoeic disaster (the movie that is)
The fighting scenes were well made (3 stars for that) but if the script is manure, then wrapped even in brightly coloured ribbons, it is still manure. The writer, James Carabatsos, also wrote those other screamers Hamburger Hill, No Mercy , Heartbreak Ridge. Someone, please shoot him before he writes any more such garbage.
The Director, Russell Mulcahy is an Australian too. God, the shame!!!