The Last Drop

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The Last Drop
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Directed byColin Teague
Written byColin Teague
Gary Young
Produced by
Andrei Boncea
StarringBilly Zane
Michael Madsen
Karel Roden
Tommy Flanagan
CinematographyMaxime Alexandre
Edited byMichael Ellis
Music byDavid Julyan
Production
companies
Carnaby International
Media Pro Pictures
Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment (UK)
Release date
  • 8 March 2006 (2006-03-08) (UK)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Romania
LanguageEnglish

The Last Drop is a 2006 British-Romanian war film by Colin Teague that was released direct to video. Teague teamed up with Gary Young, with whom he had previously collaborated on the British crime drama films Shooters and Spivs. Andrew Howard and , who cowrote Shooters alongside Teague and Young, both appear briefly in the film.

Plot[]

The film is set against the backdrop of World War II, during Operation Market Garden, the largest full scale airborne invasion in history. Corporal Powell (Neil Newbon), an undercover British Intelligence officer, has been given command of a small unit of men, codenamed Matchbox. Their assignment is to retrieve a hoard of Dutch gold and art treasures, plundered by the Nazis, from a seemingly impregnable booby-trapped underground bunker. Simple enough, but when Matchbox is shot down short of the drop point their plan goes awry and Powell is forced to recruit the assistance of several colorful characters, including a smart-mouthed petty thief (Nick Moran), a drunken bomb disposal expert (Tommy Flanagan), and a smooth talking pilot with a keen eye for smooth ladies (Billy Zane).

As Powell and his roving band of misfits fight their way through a German counterattack, Benitta and Saskia, members of the Dutch resistance (Lucy Gaskell and ) have managed to pinpoint the location of the stolen loot, where it is about to be moved to Berlin by the vile SS Major Kessler (Laurence Fox) and his troops. Risking their lives, they communicate this vital information to British Intelligence in a courageous attempt to liberate the occupied Netherlands. At the same time, renegade German forces race to get their hands on the loot as well. It’s a race against the clock, in the midst of a heated battle.

Cast[]

  • Laurence Fox as SS Major Klaus Kessler, A ruthless Nazi tasked by the SS with safeguarding the loot. He and his elite team of storm troopers will go to great lengths to keep it from falling into enemy hands.
  • Louis Dempsey as Snyder
  • Lucy Gaskell as Benitta, Member of the Dutch resistance.
  • Coral Beed as Saskia, Member of the Dutch resistance.
  • Andrew Howard as Captain Edward Banks
  • Jack Dee as Warren
  • Neil Newbon as Corporal Rhys Powell, An undercover SOE agent who has been tasked by British Intelligence as Matchbox's team lead.
  • Nick Moran as Private Alan Ives, A smart mouthed petty thief and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox.
  • Rafe Spall as Private David Wellings, A naïve medical orderly and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox.
  • Tommy Flanagan as Private Dennis Baker, A drunken, somewhat psychotic bomb disposal expert and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox
  • Sean Pertwee as Sergeant Bill McMillan, A battle hardened veteran and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox.
  • Billy Zane as Lieutenant Robert Oates, A smooth talking Canadian pilot with a strong appetite for women, and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox
  • Neil Jackson, Flight Lieutenant Simkins
  • Steve Speirs as Gustav Hansfeldt
  • Agathe De La Boulaye as Katrina
  • David Ginola as Corporal Dieter Max
  • Karel Roden as Sergeant Hans Beck, Renegade German soldier bent on snatching the loot for himself.
  • Alexander Skarsgård as Lieutenant Jergen Voller, Renegade German soldier who has unfinished business to settle with Kessler, his brother.
  • Michael Madsen as Colonel J.T. Colt
  • Todd Spangler as Shannon
  • Dave Evans as Private Meyer
  • Justin Thompson as Steiner
  • Gheorge Debre as Mayer
  • Iaona Popescu-Galgotiu as Mayer's Wife
  • Diarmid Scrimshaw as Museum Guide
  • Aoife Madden as Janet

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