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The Last Valley

  • 19711971
  • PGPG
  • 2h 8m
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The Last Valley (1971)
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
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During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
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  • Director
    • James Clavell
  • Writers
    • James Clavell
    • J.B. Pick(novel)
  • Stars
    • Michael Caine
    • Omar Sharif
    • Florinda Bolkan
  • Director
    • James Clavell
  • Writers
    • James Clavell
    • J.B. Pick(novel)
  • Stars
    • Michael Caine
    • Omar Sharif
    • Florinda Bolkan
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 82User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    "The Last Valley" Michael Caine 1970 ABC Pictures
    "The Last Valley" Michael Caine, Florinda Bolkan 1970 ABC Pictures
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    "Last Valley, The" Omar Sharif 1970 / Todd-Ao
    The Last Valley (1971)
    Michael Caine in The Last Valley (1971)
    Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, and Madeleine Hinde in The Last Valley (1971)
    Michael Caine in The Last Valley (1971)
    Michael Caine in The Last Valley (1971)
    Michael Caine in The Last Valley (1971)
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    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • The Captain
    Omar Sharif
    Omar Sharif
    • Vogel
    Florinda Bolkan
    Florinda Bolkan
    • Erica
    Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport
    • Gruber
    Per Oscarsson
    Per Oscarsson
    • Father Sebastian
    Arthur O'Connell
    Arthur O'Connell
    • Hoffman
    Madeleine Hinde
    • Inge
    • (as Madeline Hinde)
    Yorgo Voyagis
    • Pirelli
    Miguel Alejandro
    • Julio
    Christian Roberts
    Christian Roberts
    • Andreas
    Brian Blessed
    Brian Blessed
    • Korski
    Ian Hogg
    Ian Hogg
    • Graf
    Michael Gothard
    Michael Gothard
    • Hansen
    George Innes
    George Innes
    • Vornez
    Ralph Arliss
    Ralph Arliss
    • Claus
    Claudia Butenuth
    Claudia Butenuth
    • Helga
    Paul Challen
    • Zollner
    Christopher Chittell
    Christopher Chittell
    • Svenson
    • (as Chris Chittell)
    • Director
      • James Clavell
    • Writers
      • James Clavell
      • J.B. Pick(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Perhaps the most praised element of the production was the score by John Barry, then most famous for his "James Bond" scores. In the new millennium, it was still regarded as one of his best scores. In a project to prepare a special CD release of the soundtrack, it was discovered that the complete original session recordings were either lost or destroyed.
    • Goofs
      During the attack in the forest above the valley, a man with an arm injury is being comforted by a fellow soldier. The wounded man is lying against a rock but when an enemy shoots at him in the next frame he is standing as is his friend who was also leaning against the rock in the previous frame.
    • Quotes

      The Captain: There is no Hell. Don't you understand? Because there is no God. There never was. Don't you understand? There is no God! It's a legend!

    • Connections
      Featured in The World According to Smith & Jones: The Tudors (1987)

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    This is a movie made during a time when writers, novelists, like Clavell and Crichton, were allowed to make their own films. What you have are literate, probing plots and stories, sometimes failed by low budgets or

    lack of experience. With LAST VALLEY, there's an otherworldly quality to Clavell's work, steepled in strict historical fact; Clavell postulates a fantasy valley where humans live hidden from the brutality and horror of war; they are genetic angels, of a sort, but those in control are wise to the ways of a world ruled by knife. A band of soldiers, lacking a country or

    home to call their home, caught in the hurricane of this war, stumble into a seeming Elysian Fields and begin to infect it with pragmatic survival and certain doom. The ways of human beings as a mass descend on the slight-populated community.

    People criticize the film as dark, equating realism. Fact is, Clavell shows a contrast between the world Michael Caine, as the Captain, knows and is scarred by, and the hidden land in which beautiful women and children are protected, fed and safe. Caine's Captain has been a wanton butcher in the war, the murderer of women and children. Yet he only understands the quality of this paradise after he has nearly destroyed it.

    The most telling sequences are those in which these men from outside the hidden land, knowing the damage they are causing to this one place where beautiful women can live unraped and men as equals, are forced to leave. The women in love with them wish to accompany them into the horror the men know. Caine, in particular, leaves his lover under a false sense of security, believing she will be safe. His heart-breaking understanding of this woman's loyalty to him, bred in her by a hidden land where love can be expressed devoid of force and tragedy, comes only in the end; his last touch with this lover is with a glove made of armor, outfitted for the killing he will do once he leaves the valley and rejoins the war.

    There is probably the great performance of Caine's career up on screen in this film. Outside of GET CARTER, you'll never see Caine inhabit a role more fully. Even if the scope of the story gets away from Clavell at the end, and could have benefitted from the expanded format of SHOGUN say, this is a big-time view of a great actor in Caine and a literate script from Clavell that will, without doubt, remain fixed in the mind.
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    • Release date
      • January 28, 1971 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • James Clavell's The Last Valley
    • Filming locations
      • Trins, Tirol, Austria
    • Production companies
      • ABC Pictures
      • Seamaster Films
      • Season
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    • Budget
      • $11,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.20 : 1

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