''The Last Drop'' is a 2006 British-Romanian adventure

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films '' Shooters'' and ''

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''.

Plot Summary

The film is set during

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, amidst Operation Market Garden. Captain Edward Banks (

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) and Corporal Powell (

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), both SOE

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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 (

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), Flight Lieutenant Robert Oates (

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), Private David Wellings (

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), and Sergeant Bill McMillan (

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). 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 (

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) who is Kessler's brother, alongside Corporal Dieter Max (

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) and Sergeant Hans Beck (

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), also attempt to retrieve the Dutch gold and art treasures. Voller captures Gustav Hansfeldt (

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), right hand man of SS Major Kessler (

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). Gustav escorts them to the bunker in

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where the treasure is stored.

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fighters Benitta (

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) 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

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s 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

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and displayed in a museum. Beck and Voller steal the loot from the museum and head to

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. A few years later, the British survivors return to Arnhem.

Cast

as SS Major Klaus Kessler, a Nazi SS officer tasked with safeguarding the loot * Louis Dempsey as Snyder *

as Benitta, member of the

* Coral Beed as Saskia, member of the Dutch resistance *

as Captain Edward Banks *

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as Warren *

as Corporal Rhys Powell, an undercover SOE agent who has been tasked by British Intelligence as Matchbox's team lead *

as Private Alan Ives, a petty thief and surviving member of Matchbox *

as Private David Wellings, A naïve medical orderly andsurviving member of Matchbox *

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as Private Dennis Baker, a drunken, somewhat psychotic bomb disposal expert and one of the few surviving members of Matchbox *

as Sergeant Bill McMillan, a veteran and surviving member of Matchbox *

as Flight Lieutenant Robert Oates, a

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pilot and surviving member of Matchbox *

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, as Flight Lieutenant Simkins *

as Gustav Hansfeldt, right hand man of Kessler *

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as Katrina, Voller's mistress *

as Corporal Dieter Max *

as Sergeant Hans Beck, a renegade German soldier *

as Lieutenant Jergen Voller, a renegade German soldier and Kessler's brother *

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as Lieutenant Colonel James T. Colt, a commander in the

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* 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

External links

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