The View From The Mountain

There was a movie released back in the 1980s that starred Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, and Art LaFleur that was called Zone Troopers . Released by the Charles Band studios (for whom Thomerson would star in Dollman , and the Trancers series) Zone Troopers was a fun B-movie about American soldiers who come across an alien spaceship in Italy during the Second World War, and their efforts to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis. Zone Troopers just couldn't be taken too seriously--it was just an enjoyable popcorn flick, and its makers knew it. When Overlord , with its same basic storyline--American soldiers during World War Two encounter an otherworldly threat--first premiered, I was looking forward to seeing it because of some of the great reviews that it received. Overlord was the code word for D-Day, the Allied assault on Nazi-occupied Europe that started on June 6, 1944. Overlord , the movie, deals with members of the 101st Airborne who dropped behind the lines the night ...