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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303451534 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303451535 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: August 06, 1996 Running Time: 148 minutes Sales Rank: 8112 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 1967
Amazon.com: Long (148 minutes) military mystery set among the high command of Nazi Germany in occupied Poland and elsewhere in the Third Reich. A prostitute in wartime Warsaw has been brutally murdered and a German military investigator narrows his field of suspects to three German generals. But the war--and the sense of preening Prussian arrogance--interferes with his investigation, even as he begins to home in on the killer. Moodily sinister atmosphere and a strong cast (Peter O'Toole, Tom Courtenay, Omar Sharif, Christopher Plummer) can't overcome a plodding pace and a tendency to digress. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - As fascinating as nasty gossip, but keep your finger on the fast-forward button
German Army officer Grau, a colonel in Wehrmacht Intelligence, is talking to a French policeman, Inspector Morand, in Paris. The year is 1944. For two years Grau has been investigating the psychopathic murder of a prostitute that took place in Warsaw. The suspects are three Wehrmacht general officers. Says Inspector Morand as he wonders why Grau is so persistent in his investigation, "Murder is the occupation of generals."
"Then let us say," Grau replies, "what is admirable on the large scale is monstrous on the small. Since we must give medals to mass murderers, why not give justice ... Read More
Rating: - A war movie and mystery (kind of) in one
A German officer looking into the murder of a prostitute in Warsaw discovers that the suspect has to be one of three generals stationed in the city. before he can do anything about it he finds himself in Paris. The same generals wind up there as well, but at least one of them is involved in a conpiracy to kill Hitler. The movie goes on and it is fascinating to see how the entire thing plays out.
I am waiting for a good version of this video to be available on DVD. Once it is I will make sure to add it to my collection.
Rating: - This is Peter O'Toole's best acting performance.
I don't think it possible to think of this movie as either a period piece or a re-hash of the "hate the Nazi" World War Two screen novel. It goes way beyond that. I believe that Peter O'Toole is at the peak of his talent in this film. I only know of one actor who was gifted at portraying men who were homicidally/mentally ill and that was Humphrey Bogart in the "Caine Mutiny" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
O'Toole is so good in this part that all of the other actors in the movie have to come up to his level and that makes it one of the better acted plays of the latter part of the 20th ... Read More
Rating: - an overlooked pleasure
This movie is one that should be seen after reading the Hans Helmut Kirst novel on which it is based. The novel goes into depth on the three different types of generals portrayed and how each type of general betrayed the country by serving Hitler. The old monocled Prussian aristocrat, the middle class techician played by Donald Pleasance and of course the incomparable O'Toole as the Nazi fanatic.The novel is less a whodunnit than historical ruminations with the murder as a backdrop. I think many of the best things in the novel don't make it into the movie, while many ridiculous ... Read More
Rating: - A fascinating failure
Much derided on its initial release despite reuniting the Lawrence of Arabia team of Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif (who share little screen time) and producer Sam Spiegel, Anatole Litvak's The Night of the Generals is a different kind of epic failure, and much more interesting than many a success of its day.
Clumsily ripped off by the Vietnam movie Saigon/Off Limits, it's big-budget WW2 murder-mystery that goes off in all directions and frequently completely forgets its nominal main character, Omar Sharif's wildly miscast Nazi military policeman on the trail of the German general who brutally ... Read More
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