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Overview

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Director:

Anatole Litvak

Writers:

Joseph Kessel (adapted for the screen by) and
Paul Dehn (adapted for the screen by) ...
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Release Date:

24 February 1967 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | War more

Tagline:

A unique manhunt across the capitals of Europe... across three decades up to today!

Plot:

The murder of a prostitute in Nazi occupied Warsaw draws Wehrmacht Major Grau into an investigation... more | full synopsis

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Awards:

1 win more

User Comments:

Dramas in the drama more (50 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter O'Toole ... General Tanz

Omar Sharif ... Major Grau
Tom Courtenay ... Corporal Hartmann

Donald Pleasence ... General Kahlenberge
Joanna Pettet ... Ulrike
Philippe Noiret ... Inspector Morand
Charles Gray ... General von Seidlitz-Gabler
Coral Browne ... Eleanore von Seidlitz-Gabler
John Gregson ... Colonel Sandauer
Nigel Stock ... Otto

Christopher Plummer ... Field Marshal Rommel
Juliette Gréco ... Juliette (as Juliette Greco)
Yves Brainville ... Liesowski
Sacha Pitoëff ... Doctor (as Sacha Pitoeff)
Charles Millot ... Wionczek
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

La nuit des généraux (France)
Tank Force (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:

148 min

Country:

UK | France

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Filming Locations:

Hamburg, Germany more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Marianne Faithfull was screen tested for the role of Ulrike von Seydlitz-Gabler. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The action of this movie is taking place in year 1942, and Warsaw is being devastated. But Warsaw was destroyed by Nazis in 1944. more

Quotes:

Major Grau: I have a zealous nature, Sir, I can't help it. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Taxidi sta Kythira (1984) more

Soundtrack:

SOBRE LAS OLAS more


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18 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Dramas in the drama, 14 October 2004
Author: michelerealini from Switzerland

"Night of the generals" is big Anglo-French production of 1966, which talks about dramatic facts in a dramatic period (World War II). Two prostitutes are assassinated (in Poland and in France respectively) by a mysterious killer. A colonel of the German army (Omar Sharif) investigates and suspects three generals -two of them (Charles Gray and Donald Pleasence) are involved in a plot to kill Hitler, the other one (Peter O'Toole) is the most crazy and dangerous-. Twenty years later the same French inspector (Philippe Noiret) who helped Sharif in the inquiry faces another case of a murdered prostitute, the crime is executed in the same way as the previous ones...

This film is excellent. With a supercast (O'Toole, Sharif, Pleasence, Gray, Courtenay, Noiret) director Anatole Litvak directs a classic, a masterpiece. This film, maybe, is not as famous and as remembered as it should be... It deserves to be rediscovered, thanks to the recent DVD release.

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