My favourite scene of this film (and probably in any adventure/war film)... Smith bossily 'playing' everyone in the room in a cunning game of bluff and double bluff...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
The musical sting on Von Hapen's entrance, "Stay where you are!" - brilliant! And I love the irony that it's his paranoia that leaves him vulnerable to Smith's pretence that Kramer and Rosemeyer are conspirators against Hitler...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
Smith comes across as a cold-blooded so-and-so in his decision to take with him the three traitors, for use as expendable decoys during the escape, if needed... (more so than for a trial back in blighty, one figures)
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
I'm running a DVD - not sure if it's playing quicker than blurays or streaming... the radio operator has just been offed, here, and the alarm's gone off...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
For me there's a bit too much carnage in what's left... the film moving into the territory of the new wave of nasty, ramped-up violence which emerged in several genres of movie at that time...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
I remember setting up a truck with traps, tripwires and "explosives " together with a few other guys in the military. I made one rigged to go off if someone sat down in the driver's seat. Then we switched with the guys who had done the same with a room, trying to defuse it. So much fun!
Music cue for the rope escape down the walls of the castle is called 'Pursued by the Enemy' on the original soundtrack album - My favourite Ron Goodwin cue from this score.
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Ah... the mandatory execution of soldier in radio room using a silenced pistol. I like it!
My favourite scene of this film (and probably in any adventure/war film)... Smith bossily 'playing' everyone in the room in a cunning game of bluff and double bluff...
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Are we there already?
And in the book, triple and quadruple bluff. Like I said earlier, it's simplified for the film- right, Golrush007?
Quite prescient for Clint - Dirty Harry's line!
This is a great scene.
Yes, the plotting in the book reminded me somewhat of Gardner's more convoluted Bond novels.
The commando team must be the oldest one in WWII 🤣
The musical sting on Von Hapen's entrance, "Stay where you are!" - brilliant! And I love the irony that it's his paranoia that leaves him vulnerable to Smith's pretence that Kramer and Rosemeyer are conspirators against Hitler...
Great pic
Intermission. Buy your ice creams now.
When this was shown in cinemas, Clint wiring up the explosives was the start of the intermission.
I've heard the Gestapo man is wearing the wrong uniform, but I don't know myself.
Pausing
Smith comes across as a cold-blooded so-and-so in his decision to take with him the three traitors, for use as expendable decoys during the escape, if needed... (more so than for a trial back in blighty, one figures)
I'm running a DVD - not sure if it's playing quicker than blurays or streaming... the radio operator has just been offed, here, and the alarm's gone off...
The rest of the movie is all-out action. But the plot so far has set it up beautifully.
Radio op still alive here, though not for long
For me there's a bit too much carnage in what's left... the film moving into the territory of the new wave of nasty, ramped-up violence which emerged in several genres of movie at that time...
Oh I love that film within a film!
I remember setting up a truck with traps, tripwires and "explosives " together with a few other guys in the military. I made one rigged to go off if someone sat down in the driver's seat. Then we switched with the guys who had done the same with a room, trying to defuse it. So much fun!
Imperial stormtroopers aim is so precise.
Clint and his revolutionary 1000-round magazine 🤣
You are a man of extraordinary magnitude.
Music cue for the rope escape down the walls of the castle is called 'Pursued by the Enemy' on the original soundtrack album - My favourite Ron Goodwin cue from this score.
My father used a Schmeiser smg during parts of his national service. He say it was inaccurate.
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The action is over the top, but it works.
Timestamp?