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Kirk and Starbase commanding officer Commodore Mendez attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery, but before the matter can be cleared up, Spock - for reasons as yet unknown - commits an act of open mutiny, kidnapping the helpless Captain Pike and hijacking the Enterprise via a brilliantly thought-out and timed plan aided by a few Vulcan nerve pinches.
Upon reassuming command, Kirk demands an explanation, whereupon Spock requests immediate court martial by a tribunal of Starfleet commanding officers - of whom there are three on board - Mendez, Kirk, and the crippled invalid Captain Pike.
He is Serguis Alexander, former commanding general of the Russia armies who is now being forced to relive the same scene, which he suffered professional and personal tragedy in, to satisfy the director who was once a revolutionist in Russia and was humiliated by Alexander.
Powers Boothe give a commanding performance as the leader Rev. Jim Jones from obscurity until total madness.
Paul Ryker (Lee Marvin) who is selected for a top secret mission by his commanding officer.
Stating he was ordered to defect, he sadly learns his commanding officer has been killed and has no evidence or proof of his innocence.
Convincing commanding Gen. Amos Baily, (Lloyd Nolan) of his doubts, he is granted a new trial and if found guilty will be executed.
Icy and lethal ace hit-man Tony Arzenta (a divinely smooth and commanding performance by Alain Delon) wants to quit the assassination business, but the dangerous mobsters he works for won't let him.
Very commanding!
Are we supposed to enjoy a film where the anti-hero betrays his kindly commanding officer, sleeps with his wife, sleeps with a teenager, deals heroin on the side, consorts with Turkish gangsters, sells stolen weapons to said gangsters yet comes up the good guy?
The movie is really a dream of General Nobile, a survivor and commanding officer of the Italia, a dirigible that met with disaster in a grand Artic exploration during the Mussolini era.
The film is not slow moving but definitely very provocative and there are some commanding performances from all, including DW, (with the exception of his accent!)
Although dated this is an excellent movie with Jones as commanding as usual.
Specifically, the religious nut girl at the end repeating some prayer over and over, and forcing her agnostic commanding female soldier to repeat this fantasy nonsense.
Fred Dryer stars as a gung ho marine who rounds up the troops and conducts a rescue mission in response to the U.S government's underwhelming response to his commanding officer's(Brian Keith) abduction.
She delivers most of the lines with tongue planted firmly in cheek, and metaphorically winks at the audience with every cheesy line and action she goes through....Misty Mundae is able to pull off something very few other actors could, and her commanding presence and on-screen charisma suck you in, and intrigue you in ways that endear you to her character and her portrayal, and simultaneously enable you to overlook the overall quality of the material, and whatever other shortcomings the film may have.
On the frontlines where Colonel John Rico is commanding that doesn't matter much.
The acting is quite impressive all around: Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Ritter are the stars of the show, commanding very well-built characters; one a more introspective, unspoken kid and the other a more domineering, swagger-carrying bad-ass.
Jock Mahoney is the commanding officer Harold (though I could have sworn he was called "Alan" here) who tries to keep everything together.
Vincent Riverside has a screen presence that is commanding.
Twelve soldiers were convicted, and the commanding officer at the prison, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, was demoted to the rank of Colonel.
More important, the program explores how personal feelings affect commanding choices.
The actor never rose above B pictures, but had a commanding screen presence.
After some hesitation his commanding officer is taken by Alyosha's innocent sincerity and grants him a six day leave; the rest of the movie details Alyosha's journey home.
A bald, commanding Kevin Bowen, his calm tenor carrying an edge of danger, offers Reginald an answer.
Scary!" Him commanding just $250,000,000, I mean that was a lot of money, but come on!
Bette received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her commanding performance here, She lights up the screen whether Dixie is upstaging Eddie in front of thousands of troops during WWII, cursing out sponsors during her and Eddie's television show, or tearing Eddie a new one when she thinks he is trying to steal her son away from her.
Gregory Peck, who gets to wear the proverbial white wig in the final reels, is commanding while grilling the witnesses, but we never learn what makes this man tick, or why he should lose interest in wife Ann Todd (who has some spunk in her early scenes, but loses it fairly quickly for the sake of melodramatic pathos).
As many other stories of science fiction this saga begins with one prophecy of one warrior who will kill the ultimate evil who destroys his world, then all the classic elements are changed just to put a bunch of laments characters commanding a big space ship of an ancient insect race who manifest in the end of the fourth movie with the form of a human(at least the face).
Leading the way is the commanding presence of Burt Lancaster's inspired performance barking out his dialogue, but holding a truly genuine rapport with his mainly unprepared soldiers.
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