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"Welcome," said Commandant Azmi Zghayar. He was about 5 ft. 10 in., carried a cane and walked with a slight limp, the result of a wound suffered during a raid on Israel. He wore a khaki wool sweater and green fatigues, and a pistol was tucked into his hip pocket...
"That's Jaruzelski!" the commandant shouted when he saw the snowman. "No, that's a snowman," the detainees responded. The bemused commandant went away, probably to receive instructions. When he returned he ordered: "Destroy that snowman!"
"But that's Jaruzelski," the prisoners argued. The commandant was adamant, threatening the detainees with all sorts of punishments if they did not obey his orders. In mock obedience, one of them approached the snowman and knocked off his cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. Then, with one decisive...
SCOTT comes the closest to reality in this movie, playing the nutso commandant. Melding two of his better characters from previous films--gung-ho Gen. Buck Turgidson of Dr. Strangelove and bloodthirsty Gen. George S. Patton of Patton--Scott portrays a feeble ex-warrior who fails to make the crucial...
Over, as it turns out, the dead bodies of General Harlan Bache (George C. Scott), the commandant, and Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), the ranking cadet officer, who reveres the bonkers brigadier. After Bache is invalided out of the film (much too early for fans of Scott's mad-militarist...