Lost Command

Lost Command
Directed byMark Robson
Screenplay byNelson Gidding
Based onThe Centurions
1960 novel
by Jean Lartéguy
Produced byMark Robson
StarringAnthony Quinn
Alain Delon
George Segal
Michèle Morgan
Maurice Ronet
Claudia Cardinale
Grégoire Aslan
CinematographyRobert Surtees (Panavision)
Edited byDorothy Spencer
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Red Lion
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 1966 (1966-05)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,150,000 (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1]
4,294,756 admissions (France)[2]

Lost Command (aka Les Centurions) is a 1966 American war film directed and produced by Mark Robson and starring Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet and Claudia Cardinale. It is based on the best-selling 1960 novel The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy. The film focuses on the story of French paratroopers battling in French Indochina and French Algeria.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1966", Variety, 4 January 1967 p 8
  2. ^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story