With the previous films that I just commented: JUMP INTO HELL, Sam Fuller's CHINA GATE and Robert Florey's ROGUE'S REGIMENT, this is one, if not the only, American movie speaking of French colony wars; I mean Indochina, though not that much here - more in JUMP INTO HELL - and especially war in Algeria. Here it may be very interesting, and not too much didactic, for US audiences, but also maybe too cliché for French ones, who know a bit more than Americans about this tragedy. However, no movie in France, or a very few ones, have evoked this hush hush war, and only in the 2000's !!! Only Yves Boisset, the French Oliver Stone, made a movie about it in the seventies: R. A. S. Useless to say that after this movie, Boisset encountered many problems.... So, back to this one, yes, this is a very good American film taking place for a while in France, with a convincing Delon and an outstanding Tony Quinn. It is splendily told, built, played, one of best Mark Robson's films.
Review of Lost Command
