The film is terrible. Sutherland is over the top with his happy go lucky Irish bloke and I find his scenes so annoying, never understood how he got such great movie roles. I think Caine knew during filming that this flick was crap and so gives a very underwelming performance. I was only kept interested by Jenny Agutter.
If I want to watch a WW2 fantasy adventure I'll stick to the brilliant 'Where Eagles Dare' or 'The Guns of Navarone'.
...and I hated the way he went after the much smaller priest.
shareThe priest bit was another inaccuracy; all churches like that in England were C of E, by the WW11. Your response to the subject aside, I think the writers made him RC so that he would bond with Devlin, who of course, was RC.
shareThe priest and the church was Catholic in the original Jack Higgins novel. You'd have to blame him for that, but I think it was necessary for it to be Catholic or else Irish Devlin was not likely to fit in with the surroundings necessary for pulling off the plot. While Catholics are a minority in England they do exist and not just in G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories.
shareThey are not much of a minority in parts of Britain.
It's that man again!!
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It was a great movie. Too bad you didn't like it but I sure did.
shareYeah, I watched this recently after a long long time having seen it before. Pretty bad overall. Duvall was good. The movie had it's moments, but much of it was crap and kinda campy.
'Where Eagles Dare' or 'The Guns of Navarone' way better or "a bridge too far" even.
I'm rewatching it now
It's a fantastic story but boy, are the accents hard to take...I suppose German must be difficult to mimic
Fun movie though!