It was necessary to determine whether to buy and risk losing the few dollars or more arguably having an eyesore of an item that second hand stores would not even give money for. When i saw that Billy Dee Williams was in this all I could think was how cool it was going to be to see a young Lando Calersion type fighting in the second world war. So-so wartime movie deals with captain Carter (Stephen Boyd ) , a tough but racist commandant , he is assigned by General Matt Clark ( Paul Stewart) a dangerous mission whose aim is avoid to blow up a dam vital to the Allied in 1944 .

0 out of 0 found this helpful. Boyd (utilizing a bad southern twang) plays an Army Captain in WWII Germany who is assigned to save a dam from being destroyed by the retreating Nazis. The outfit is formed by a motley group , as the leader lieutenant (Robert Hooks) , a coward ( keep an eye out Richard Pryor) , a hight and corpulent (Grier), , an intelligent professor and cooker ( Moses Gunn ) who knows the German language , a N.Y. Harlem young (Billy Dee Williams) expert on knifes , an idealist and imaginative young ( Glyn Turman ) who writes in his bloc the following : ¨ The company fought magnificently , killing 23 of the enemy before taking the machine gun nest . It's also great to see a young Richard Pryor playing a serious role in a film that in the end will probably be one of his funniest. However, the basic story idea is much stronger than might be expected, and is a respectable effort at portraying racial issues in the World War II era Army.

It happened in this film. The other men have some good scenes and lines before their fates are revealed.

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Do you believe that a DEAF person would actually be enlisted in the active duty army in Europe during WWII to serve in a "Negro" unit...cooking, supply services, burial detail, etc.?

A conman's crimes are blamed on a good-natured fast-drawing cowboy he meets and decides to use as decoy. I bet you can guess Billy D Williams as the first one (from Star Wars), but the lady in the farm house is none other then Vina from the Star Trek pilot, Susan Oliver (getting close to 40 and not so hot with her lack of green body paint on).

The premise for this made for TV movie had a lot of promise - there haven't been a lot of movies made concerning African Americans who fought in World War Two, and the production managed to round up some serious talent in front of the camera. Rather, this film sends a realistic message about war. Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. In commenting on African-Americans in film and television in chronological order for Black History Month, we're now at 1970 with the TV movie Carter's Army (a.k.a. 7 out of 16 found this helpful. It was written by David Kidd, who would also write The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Aaron Spelling, who would go on to dominate 1970's TV with Mod Squad, The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch, Family, Vega$, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and many more. It happened in this film. Comedy 5 out of 8 found this helpful.


Susan Oliver is the German lady who brings out the worst in Boyd after he sees Hooks plant her a kiss in thanking her for advice and compliments. It happened in this film. A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Was this review helpful? Absolutely!

Was this review helpful? Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Was this review helpful? Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Was this review helpful? 1 out of 4 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Directed by Coby Ruskin. Yes, they act that way because they are considered second-rate men who aren't given a chance to see combat, but even after they are assigned to an important mission, one of them threatens to desert and two of them get drunk on some pilfered bottles of wine.
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