The Command (1954)
A Story Beyond Any Bigness the Screen Has Shown – The First Production from Warner Bros. in CinemaScope
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
- Date of release
- 1954-02-13
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- David Butler
Casting
- Guy Madison — Capt. Robert MacClaw
- Joan Weldon — Martha Cutting
- James Whitmore — Sgt. Elliott
- Carl Benton Reid — Col. Janeway
- Harvey Lembeck — Pvt. Gottschalk
- Ray Teal — Dr. Trent
- Robert Nichols — 2nd Lt. O'Hirons
- Don Shelton — Maj. Gibbs
- Denver Pyle — Infantryman (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Command is a 1954 American CinemaScope Western film directed by David Butler. It stars Guy Madison and James Whitmore. It was based on the novel Rear Guard by James Warner Bellah and features a screenplay by Sam Fuller.
Production
The film was originally due to star Gary Cooper under the title Rear Guard. The film was announced to be made in 3-D but Warner Bros. later announced that it was to be made in WarnerSuperScope using Warner's new All-Media camera with no mention of 3-D. Warner Bros. also announced a deal with Zeiss Opton to produce lenses for them but The Command was the only Warner Bros. film to use them.
Warner's camera and new system was never used and The Command was shot in Vistarama although, in agreement with 20th Century Fox, it was publicly released as Warner's first film in CinemaScope. It was also the first Western to be billed as in CinemaScope.
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