The Commander

The Commander

105 mins | Action, War | April 28, 1988

Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!

The Commander

105 mins | Action, War | April 28, 1988

The Commander
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
IMDb rating 4.8
Producers Ascot Film
Original title Der Commander
Directors Antonio Margheriti
Writers Tito Carpi, Arne Elsholtz, Giacomo Furia

Cast

Lewis Collins

as Major Colby

Lee Van Cleef

as Col. Mazzarini

Donald Pleasence

as Henry Carlson

Brett Halsey

as McPherson

Manfred Lehmann

as Mason / Hiccock

Bobby Rhodes

as Kongo Klaus

John Steiner

as Duclaud

Romano Puppo

as Angelo

Thomas Danneberg

as Gustafson

Christian Brückner

as Frank Williams

Frank Glaubrecht

as Lennox

Anita Lochner

as Mrs. Mason

Wolfgang Kühne

as Krüger

Paul Müller

as Carbalo

Antonio Cantafora

as Nick De Carlo

David Brass

as One of Dong's soldiers (uncredited)