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(…) That alone is scary– I knew it might stink, but with the cast list, I idea it might actually be OK, and it is. It’s a Hideous DVD transfer though, but for 1 dollar I can’t complain too worthy!
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It’s what I understanding it was, a TV movie (originally aired on ABC) from 1969 written by TV mogul Aaron Spelling and Produced by the huge Danny Thomas Productions, who produced such classic TV shows as The Dick Van Dyke Demonstrate, That Girl, The Andy Griffith Reveal, etc,.
This film stars Stephen Boyd, a enormous character actor/leading man known for his roles in such movies as ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘Fantatstic Voyage’.
It features young newcomers such as Richard Pryor and Billy Dee Williams & football star Rosie Grier in tall supporting roles as members of an all-black WW II US Army company (‘B’ Company) in France who are doing the ‘grunt’ work of the Army. Digging latrines, digging graves, dealing with garbage, etc. Basically getting No Respect. Blacks were considered second class citizens during WW II.
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The myth shows how Racist Redneck Major Carter (Boyd) is asked to go on a uncertain mission to blow up a Dam held by the Nazis and the only company of men to support conclude the task are ‘B’ Company, (the all sad company) .
They appear sluggish and shiftless to Major Carter, who doesn’t absorb they can relieve him blow up the dam. Diminutive does he know, they are more than up for the job. Carter asks their lieutenant in charge for ‘volunteers’, and he picks 6 men, including Pryor, Williams & Grier.
It’s fairly standard TV movie fare, and it’s kind of spruce to watch Pryor and Williams in early roles, as well as gigantic dusky character actors Moses Gunn & Glynn Thurman (Cooley High) –as well as Susan Oliver, a mammoth blonde character actress who appeared in lots of TV drama in the 60′s on shows like ‘Star Trek’, ‘Mannix’, ‘The Wild Wild West’,etc.
It’s a nice forgotten addition to dark cinema, and shows that sunless men in WWII could be unprejudiced as mettlesome as their white brothers. It’s an animated scrutinize at accelerate relations in the behind 60′s context too, what with the Sad Panther movement and all.
It’s kind of comical how all the dusky actors have gargantuan afros and a few have mustaches/goatees–not typical of WWII U.S.Army standards, but more like1969 fashion. Pryor sports a spruce red beret throughout the whole fable, too.
I guess I recommend it as a part of nostalgia. Again, The DVD transfer is Horrible, but viewable.
I was spicy about this movie primarily to eye the comedic and cinematic development of a young Richard Pryor(pre the Toy and Superman 3 debacles) …the movie in my conception DOES stand the test of time considering that it was made 34 years ago. There were some wintry cameos(a young Paul Mooney in the background) and of course an ensemble cast of some heavy weight & familiar African american actors..i.e..Billy Dee Williams(starring in Brian’s Song the following year), Moses Gunn, Rosie Grier, Glynn Turman and Robert Hooks(a pleasurable actor and father of eminent actor/director Kevin Hooks) . Surprisingly, the movie holds up..an example of this is the reference to the Moses Gunn character being a physics teacher from Howard University who joined the war concern thus surprising the racist Stephen Boyd character for being a learned Sunless man. My main gripe is the transfer…yes..this was a Aaron Spelling made for tv movie but if the movie was remastered it would have been a hell of a lot more toothsome to scrutinize…but again…it WAS worth a gander to perceive some familiar actors during their prime…..it’s worth a explore.
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