The Last Command is, all in all, a very worthy film, but it suffers from an excess of gravitas that makes the dialogue-based scenes somewhat long and tiresome.

The exceptional variety of this cast is underlined and deepened by much stronger directing of the actors than is common in a genre where character psychology remains mostly conventional, hence superficial.

The Last Command (1955) is not exceptional but is enjoyable.

Starring Sterling Haydn, Ernest Borgnine and Anna Marie Alberghetti, this stodgily cooked slab of history is memorable only for its battle scenes, which are truly rousing.