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(…) That alone is scary– I knew it might stink, but with the cast list, I conception it might actually be OK, and it is. It’s a Repugnant DVD transfer though, but for 1 dollar I can’t complain too powerful!
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It’s what I concept it was, a TV movie (originally aired on ABC) from 1969 written by TV mogul Aaron Spelling and Produced by the tremendous Danny Thomas Productions, who produced such classic TV shows as The Dick Van Dyke Indicate, That Girl, The Andy Griffith Display, etc,.
This film stars Stephen Boyd, a tremendous 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 enormous 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 record shows how Racist Redneck Major Carter (Boyd) is asked to go on a perilous mission to blow up a Dam held by the Nazis and the only company of men to wait on carry out the task are ‘B’ Company, (the all gloomy company) .
They appear idle and shiftless to Major Carter, who doesn’t acquire they can succor him blow up the dam. Dinky 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 smart to look Pryor and Williams in early roles, as well as stout shadowy character actors Moses Gunn & Glynn Thurman (Cooley High) –as well as Susan Oliver, a big 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 murky cinema, and shows that shadowy men in WWII could be impartial as valorous as their white brothers. It’s an appealing leer at hurry relations in the leisurely 60′s context too, what with the Shadowy Panther movement and all.
It’s kind of droll how all the unlit actors have expansive afros and a few have mustaches/goatees–not typical of WWII U.S.Army standards, but more like1969 fashion. Pryor sports a shapely red beret throughout the whole fable, too.
I guess I recommend it as a portion of nostalgia. Again, The DVD transfer is Gross, but viewable.
I was interesting about this movie primarily to seek the comedic and cinematic development of a young Richard Pryor(pre the Toy and Superman 3 debacles) …the movie in my idea DOES stand the test of time considering that it was made 34 years ago. There were some frigid 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 good actor and father of famed 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 Dismal 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 appetizing to witness…but again…it WAS worth a gander to survey some familiar actors during their prime…..it’s worth a sight.
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