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The Night of the Generals

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Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif

Tom Courtenay

Donald Pleasence

Joanna Pettet

Philippe Noiret

Charles Gray

Coral Browne

John Gregson

Nigel Stock

Juliette Gréco

Yves Brainville

Raymond Gérôme

Nicole Courcel

Véronique Vendell

Charles Millot

Patrick Allen

Gordon Jackson

Christopher Plummer

Sacha Pitoëff

Pierre Mondy

Eléonore Hirt

Jenny Orléans

Gérard Buhr

Michael Goodliffe

Bogusz Bilewski

Janusz Bukowski

Damian Damięcki

Maciej Damięcki

Jan Englert

Stefan Friedmann

Teodor Gendera

Mieczysław Kalenik

Jan Kociniak

Konrad Morawski

Józef Nalberczak

Stanisław Niwiński

Jerzy Radwan

Maciej Rayzacher

Grzegorz Roman

Barbara Sołtysik

Mieczysław Stoor

Andrzej Zaorski

Howard Vernon

Harry Andrews

Jackie Blanchot

Guy Bonnafoux

Philippe Castelli

Adrien Cayla-Legrand

Jacques Chevalier

Georges Claisse

Henri Coutet

Valentine Dyall

Robert Favart

Martine Ferrière

Wolf Frees

Alan Harris

René Lefèvre-Bel

Jean Gold

Roger Lumont

Jacques Marbeuf

Olivier Mathot

Gaston Meunier

Hans Meyer

Donald O'Brien

Jean Ozenne

Paul Pavel

Raymond Pierson

Robert Rietti

Alain Roche

Mac Ronay

Claude Salez

Jacques Seiler

Sabine Sun

Maurice Teynac

Pierre Tornade

César Torres

François Valorbe

Hans Verner

Nicolas Vogel

Auguste Capelier

Maurice Jarre

Alan Osbiston

Anatole Litvak

Alexandre Trauner

Hans Hellmut Kirst

Jean-Claude Philippe

Henri Decaë

James Hadley Chase

Wojciech Krysztofiak

Zygmunt Król

Andrzej Żuławski

Dominique Amy

Sam Spiegel

Maurice Barnathan

Michel Deruelle

Teddy Mason

Rosine Delamare

Paul Dehn

Jean-Pierre Périer-Pillu

Charles-Henri Montel

Joseph Kessel

Louis Wipf

Alice Ziller

Maude Spector

Ginou Billo

Bill Lodge

Robert Brownjohn

Marc Blanchard

Lucien Lippens

Margot Capelier

Willy Kemplen

Jean Zay

Tom Pevsner

Jacques Carrère

"Scotti" Scott

William Robert Sivel

Gore Vidal

**_Intrigue in the heart of Europe during World War 2_**

In German-occupied Warsaw in late 1942, a major of the Abwehr (Omar Sharif) conducts an investigation concerning the grisly murder of a German agent working as a prostitute. All he knows is that the culprit is a German general and this narrows it down to Gabler (Charles Gray), Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence) and Tanz (Peter O’Toole). Nineteen months later they all happen to be in Paris when several senior Wehrmacht officers conspire to assassinate der Führer.

“The Night of the Generals” (1967) is a worthwhile pick if you’re in the mood for the décor and intrigues of WW2 minus the battles, similar to “Triple Cross” from the year prior. Christopher Plummer starred in that earlier film and has a cameo here as Field Marshal Rommel. Both movies include the July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Hitler in the last act, which is what Cruise’s “Valkyrie” was based on four decades later.

There’s a subplot concerning the beautiful daughter of General Gabler (Joanna Pettet) and her romantic relationship with a lance corporal (Tom Courtenay). The latter becomes General Tanz’s driver and tour guide in Paris.

For another WW2 drama that focuses on parallel behind-the-scenes events of the German high command (minus the fictitious murder mystery), check out “Rommel” (2012).

The film runs 2 hour, 27 minutes, with the first act shot behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw (a rarity for Western films at the time); the second act was filmed in Paris; and the final sequence in Munich, Bavaria, southeast Germany.

GRADE: B

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