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Overview
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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
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
Awards:
1 win more
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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 |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
La nuit des généraux (France)
Tank Force (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:
148 min
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Norway:16 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | UK:15 | Netherlands:MG6
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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
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SOBRE LAS OLAS more
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"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.