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The Night of the Generals (1967) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Sam Spiegel and Anatole Litvak.

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The Night of the Generals (1967)

By Beatrice on Nov 2, 2019 From Flickers in Time

The Night of the Generals Directed by Anatole Litvak Written by Joseph Kessel and Paul Dehn from a novel by Hans Helmut Kirst 1967/UK/France Horizon Pictures/Filmsonor First viewing/Netflix rental Major Grau: Then let us say what is admirable on the large scale is monstrous on the small. Since we mu... Read full article


The Night of the Generals (1967)

on Nov 14, 2016 From Journeys in Classic Film

Twilight Time could never have predicted the recent passing of Omar Sharif, star of their latest Blu-ray release, The Night of the Generals. Directed by Anatole Litvak, this WWII murder mystery sees Sharif paired up again with Peter O’Toole, his co-star in Lawrence of Arabia (1962); both stars... Read full article


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The same year that this film was released, Charles Gray and Donald Pleasence both appeared in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. In it, Pleasence played Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a role that Grey would later play in Diamonds Are Forever.
Valentine Dyall dubbed a number of small part players.
Donald Pleasence, Nigel Stock and Gordon Jackson all star as German soldiers in this film, which was shot just a few years after The Great Escape in which the same three played British prisoners plotting to escape from a German POW camp.
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