Legion of the Damned

Legion of the Damned

90 mins | Action, War | Aug. 12, 1969

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.

Legion of the Damned

90 mins | Action, War | Aug. 12, 1969

Legion of the Damned
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.
IMDb rating 5.1
Producers Tritone Cinematografica, Hape-Film Company GmbH, Eguiluz Films
Original title La legione dei dannati
Directors Wolf Duschl, Fanny Wessling, Umberto Lenzi
Writers Romano Moschini, Rolf Grieminger, Stefano Rolla, Ugo Moretti, Eduardo Manzanos, Dario Argento

Cast

Jack Palance

as Charley MacPherson

Wolfgang Preiss

as Colonel Ackerman

Curd Jürgens

as General Von Reilow

Thomas Hunter

as Kevin Burke

Claudio Undari

as Raymond Stone

Helmuth Schneider

as Sam Schrier

Guido Lollobrigida

as Tom Carlyle

Aldo Sambrell

as Karim Habinda

Lorenzo Robledo

as Bernard Knowles

Bruno Corazzari

as Frank Madigan

Diana Lorys

as Janine

Franco Fantasia

as Marc Schiwers

Gérard Herter

as Lieutenant Hapke

Mirko Ellis

as Captain Adler

Luis Induni

as Pierre

John Stacy

as British General

Antonio Molino Rojo

as soldato Albert Hank