The Command (film)

The Command
Original film poster
Directed by	David Butler
Produced by	David Weisbart
Written by	James Warner Bellah (novel "Rear Guard") Samuel Fuller Russell S. Hughes
Starring	Guy Madison
Music by	Dmitri Tiomkin
Cinematography	Wilfred M. Cline
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	February 13, 1954 (1954-02-13)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.5 million (US)^[1]

The Command is a 1954 CinemaScope Western film directed by David Butler. It stars Guy Madison and James Whitmore.^[2] It was based on the novel Rear Guard by James Warner Bellah and features a screenplay by Sam Fuller.

Plot

Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor. The patrol's sergeant convinces the doctor to impersonate a military (rather than medical) commander, to avoid embarrassment while passing an infantry troop. The plan backfires when the colonel leading the infantry troop orders the doctor, who maintains the ruse, to lead "his" cavalry troop into hostile territory.

Cast

Guy Madison as Capt. Robert MacClaw
Joan Weldon as Martha Cutting
James Whitmore as Sgt. Elliot
Carl Benton Reid as Col. Janeway
Harvey Lembeck as Pvt. Gottschalk

References

↑ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', Variety Weekly, January 5, 1955
↑ http://allmovie.com/work/the-command-87675

External links

The Command at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by David Butler

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Glory (1956)
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