Paratroop Command

Feb 1, 1959

1h 11m

★ 5.4

Kids Living to the Deadly Thrill of Jump and Kill!

Overview

Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

American International Pictures

Paratroop Command Trailers

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Cast

Charlie

Richard Bakalyan

Lieutenant

Ken Lynch

Ace

Jack Hogan

Sergeant

Jimmy Murphy

Pigpen

Jeff Morris

Cowboy

James Beck

Gina

Carolyn Hughes

Amy

Patricia Huston

German Captain

Paul Busch

Interpreter

Sydney Lassick

Pilot

Brad Trumbull

Art (uncredited)

Robert Conrad

Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

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