The Last Command [1955] [VHS] starring: Frank Lloyd|Sterling Hayden|Anna Maria Alberghetti|Richard Carlson
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Publisher: 4 Front Video
Release date: 18th January, 1999
Media: VHS Tape
Format
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- Republic Pictures Finest Hour
This Review refers to Frank Lloyds 1955 film 'The Last Command'
Starring Sterling Haydn, Arthur Hunnicut and J Carol Naish, and a host of well known Hollywood regulars, such as Ernest Borgnine and Slim Pickens.
NOT the 1928 Silent Movie by Sternberg, as the review elsewhere on this page suggests.
This is one of Republic Pictures great films. It is about the now famous 'Siege of The Alamo' at San Antonio De Bexar in the Texican Republic, during the Texas War of Independance in the 1830's.
Frank Lloyds direction is perfect, Haydn plays Jim Bowie with sympathy and feeling, and no better actor than Arthur Hunnicutt for the role of Col. Davy Crockett, probably can ever be found again. Carlson plays an effective Travis, who shares his Last Command with Col Jim Bowie, the film takes us from the days just before the siege begins, to the final apocalyptic Battle of The Alamo, resulting in the defeat and total destruction of the 180 Texican regular and militia troops garrisoned therein. On the way we have the women folk leaving,and Mrs Dickinson staying with her husband, foray's against the Mexican lines, tension between Travis and Bowie, and homespun philosophy from Col. Davy Crockett!
(If you saw John Waynes'production of 'The Alamo', made five years later, you will see some striking similarities, love story running alongside main story, Crockett going out with a big bang, spectacular but not the way he went out, there is still controversy about how they died to this day!).
I rate this as probably the best 'Alamo' movie ever made. (The latest 'Alamo' movie is more about the Texican struggle for independance than the Battle of the Alamo itself, starting a year before the battle, and ending at the Battle of San Jacinto where Santa Ana was captured and defeated and Texas gained it's independance.)
A five star rating for this one.Definetly REPUBLIC PICTURES FINEST HOUR!!
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- The Last Command
Josef Von Sternberg directs this magnificent silent film about silent Hollywood and the former Imperial General to the Czar of Russia who has found himself there. Emil Jannings won a well-deserved Oscar, in part, for his role as the general who ironically is cast in a bit part in a silent picture as a Russian general. The movie flashes back to his days in Russia leading up to the country's fall to revolutionaries. William Powell makes his big screen debut as the Hollywood director who casts Jannings in his film. The film serves as an interesting look at the fall of Russia and at an imitation of behind-the-scenes Tinseltown in the early days. Von Sternberg delivers yet another classic, and one that is filled with the great elements of romance, intrigue, and tragedy.
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