The Last Drop

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
Directed by	Colin Teague
Written by	Colin Teague; Gary Young
Produced by	Hamish Skeggs; Andrei Boncea
Starring	Billy Zane; Michael Madsen; Karel Roden; Tommy Flanagan
Cinematography	Maxime Alexandre
Edited by	Michael Ellis
Music by	David Julyan
Production; companies	Carnaby International; Media Pro Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (UK)
Release date	8 March 2006 (UK);
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; Romania
Language	English

The Last Drop is a 2006 British-Romanian adventure war film by Colin Teague that was released direct to video. Teague collaborated with Gary Young, with whom he had previously worked with on British crime drama films Shooters and Spivs.

Plot[edit]

The film is set during World War II, amidst Operation Market Garden. Captain Edward Banks (Andrew Howard) and Corporal Powell (Neil Newbon), both SOE undercover British Intelligence officers, are given command of a small unit dubbed "Matchbox".

The objective of Matchbox is to retrieve Dutch gold and art treasures plundered by the Nazis, concealed within an underground bunker rigged with traps. Matchbox's mission is disrupted as they are downed before reaching their drop zone after facing hostile fire from German forces, which results in casualties. The surviving members include Powell, Private Alan Ives (Nick Moran), Flight Lieutenant Robert Oates (Billy Zane), Private David Wellings (Rafe Spall), and Sergeant Bill McMillan (Sean Pertwee). Oates, as the senior member, is appointed to lead the group, as they do not know Powell and Banks are Intelligence Agents.

Renegade German forces led by Lieutenant Jergen Voller (Alexander Skarsgård) who is Kessler's brother, alongside Corporal Dieter Max (David Ginola) and Sergeant Hans Beck (Karel Roden), also attempt to retrieve the Dutch gold and art treasures. Voller captures Gustav Hansfeldt (Steve Speirs), right hand man of SS Major Kessler (Laurence Fox). Gustav escorts them to the bunker in Arnhem where the treasure is stored.

Dutch resistance fighters Benitta (Lucy Gaskell) and Saskia (Coral Beed) locate the stolen loot beneath their farm and upon finding that it is about to transported to Berlin by Kessler, inform the British Intelligence. Benitta meets Powell at a nearby church, who then discloses his affiliation with British Intelligence to Matchbox.

Oates leads his troops to Arnhem, while Baker and Powell head to the bunker. Baker diffuses booby traps along the way and they soon secure the loot. Realising Kessler is coming, the group booby traps the bunker with explosives. Powell plans to steal a sea plane and divert it to Britain with the loot on board.

Following a shoot out between the two forces in which Baker is shot, Powell traps Kessler inside the bunker but is shot before boarding the plane. Baker wakes up and detonates the bombs, killing Kessler. The rest of the British crew make it out, and Voller and Beck sneak aboard posing as Americans. The loot was delivered to the British Government and displayed in a museum. Beck and Voller steal the loot from the museum and head to Switzerland. A few years later, the British survivors return to Arnhem.

Cast[edit]

Laurence Fox as SS Major Klaus Kessler, a Nazi SS officer tasked with safeguarding the loot
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 petty thief and surviving member of Matchbox
Rafe Spall as Private David Wellings, A naïve medical orderly andsurviving member 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 veteran and surviving member of Matchbox
Billy Zane as Lieutenant Robert Oates, a RCAF pilot and surviving member of Matchbox
Neil Jackson, as Flight Lieutenant Simkins
Steve Speirs as Gustav Hansfeldt, right hand man of Kessler
Agathe De La Boulaye as Katrina, Voller's mistress
David Ginola as Corporal Dieter Max
Karel Roden as Sergeant Hans Beck, a renegade German soldier
Alexander Skarsgård as Lieutenant Jergen Voller, a renegade German soldier and Kessler's brother
Michael Madsen as Lieutenant Colonel James T. Colt, a commander in the 101st Airborne Division
Todd Spangler as Lieutenant Jack 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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