Lost Command

Lost Command is a 1966 war film starring Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michle Morgan, Maurice Ronet and Claudia Cardinale. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was based on the bestselling 1960 novel The Centurions by Jean Lartguy. The film focuses on the story of French paratroopers battling in French Indochina and French Algeria. Due to it portraying scenes that reflected actual atrocities committed in the conflicts, it was not shown in France for ten years.

The garrison commander, Basque Lt. Col. PierreNoel Raspeguy Anthony Quinn, has called central headquarters for reinforcements. Headquarters sends only a single plane load of French paratroopers, under the command of Major de Clairefons. Despite Raspeguys attempts to provide covering fire, the paratroopers are slaughtered as they land. Major de Clairefons is killed when his parachute drags him into a minefield. Raspeguy is enraged that General Melies Jean Servais sent only one plane, and further believes that Melies intends to make Raspeguy responsible for the entire debacle at Dien Bien Phu.The Viet Minh overrun the French, with the survivors captured and imprisoned. Among Raspeguys friends are military historian Captain Phillipe Esclavier Alain Delon, Indochina born Captain Boisfeures Maurice Ronet, surgeon Captain Dia Gordon Heath and Lt Ben Mahidi George Segal, an Algerianborn paratrooper who turns down a Viet Minh leaders Burt Kwouk offer for preferential treatment because he is an Arab. Raspeguys leadership keeps the men together in their captivity. When released after a treaty between the Viet Minh and France, Raspeguy leads his men in demolishing a delousing station that they see as a humiliation. ........

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