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The Devil's Brigade is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color war film filmed in Panavision, based on the 1966 book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade. The film recounts the formation, training, and first mission of the 1st Special Service Force, a joint ...
The Devil's Brigade: Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine. A US Army lieutenant colonel is tasked with forming an elite commando-style unit from crack Canadian troops and the dregs of the US Army.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- 1968-08-02
A war film based on a true story of a special unit of U.S., Canadian and French soldiers in World War II. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members who worked on the movie.
Watch The Devil's Brigade with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home. At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick (William Holden ...
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- William Holden
- Andrew V. Mclaglen
- War, Drama
Clark's skeptical deputy commander, Major General Maxwell Hunter, orders the 1st Special Service Force to reconnoiter a Wehrmacht garrison in an Italian town, but Frederick goes one better and captures the entire town. In the process, they earn the nickname "Die Teufelsbrigade" - The Devil's Brigade. Convinced now of the ability of Frederick's ...
Marvin's outfit won that ridiculous war game. The Devil's Brigade, commanded by William Holden, sneaks two miles down an icy stream, outsmarts yet another detachment of dull-witted German soldiers and captures 200 prisoners and several tanks and nobody gets killed. Sure.
The Devil's Brigrade actually existed (although the unit was actually known as "The Black Devils"). During World War II, the brigade suffered casualty rates of 39%. Following the end of WWII, the brigade was disbanded. Veterans of the Devil's Brigade have been meeting each year, since 1945, in Montana, at the former training facility depicted ...
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