Strange Death Cries
I liked this film, and the central performances, but was anyone else annoyed by the strange high-pitched screams the men gave out (particularly the French) when they got shot while the camera was close to them. The cries seemed like they'd been dubbed in later, and could well have all been variations on the same guy's voice - as if they'd got one man to stand in a studio going "aaiieee!" "ooooH!" "Yaaghgh!" all day long during post-production.
I realise they didn't have a massive budget, and it wouldn't have been too bad or noticeable, except they seemed to use these sounds for every single person who got shot... surely one or two of them would have gone down silently, or with a gurgle or a moan. Not "AAAiiieee!" the whole time. It got irritating, because this is a film where we see a lot of people getting shot, often up to a dozen in one short sequence...
"Aiiieee!" "Awwwoooo!" "ooooWWW!" and so on, all the way down the line.
Still a great film, though. Rod Steiger was magnificent, and Wellington was quite hilarious, as well as frighteningly cold and ruthless until the job is done.
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