The Lost Battalion

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Actors: Rick Schroder , Daniel Caltagirone , George Calil , Adam James , Jay Rodan , Jamie Harris , Wolf Kahler , Andre Vippolis , Adam Kotz , Phil McKee , Anthony Azizi , Justin Scot , Rhys Miles Thomas , Arthur Kremer , Michael Goldstrom

Director: Russell Mulcahy

IMDB Rate: 7 out of 10 (2465 votes)

Plot Summary:In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five hundred men battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jew gangsters from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege.