Jack Palance was reason enough to see any film, and he was my reason for watching The Fall of the Giants. The film is not great and could have been much better too, but it is also not bad at all, certainly much better than Legion of the Damned(aka Battle of the Commandos), another war film starring Palance made at a similar time.
This movie is great for probably none of the reasons that the makers of the movie intended. The beginning has a documentary kind of feeling.
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During World War II, a tough officer Major John Heston (Jack Palance) is assigned by Gen. Moore (Giuseppe Addobbati as John Douglas) to organize a commando raid into Germany .
I taped most of this film from a late night show a few years ago but I wish it would come on again. It is a serious film that turns out sort of un-serious.
A pretty familiar and simplistic action piece from Leon Klimovsky, with a decent cast and little else of value.Jack Palance stars as an American commando officer, who must lead commandos on a strange mission behind-the-lines in France.
Competent war film for its time. The story is OK though pretty generic.