Dad film. I have seen this so many times I don't get 70s spy/nazi films they're all the same 😭😭😭😭

Dad film. I have seen this so many times I don't get 70s spy/nazi films they're all the same 😭😭😭😭

Serviceable.

In 1963 (it was filmed in ‘74), John Voight plays a German reporter who reads the diary of a concentration camp survivor and pretends to be an ex-Nazi to infiltrate an organization so he can find the real Nazi who ran said camp, but is now designing missile guidance systems so Egypt can attack Israel, but really wants to avenge his (Voight’s, that is) dad who he never knew but learns the Nazi killed when he (Voight’s dad, that is) tried to stop him (the Nazi, that is) from commandeering a ship back in the war.

Or something. There’s probably a spoiler in there. Sorry.

This probably worked better as a novel, but as a movie it’s way too convoluted to be this dull. It features some of the oddest music cues I’ve heard in a while—a Perry Como X-mas song over the opening credits, an Andrew Lloyd Webber score that works overtime in all the wrong places, being loud and bombastic in the sneaking about scenes but utterly absent in the ostensibly exciting (which I’m using advisedly) fight scenes. While Voight’s hero character is a colossal asshole in nearly every scene, he almost makes it work by being anti-Nazi, and the supporting cast is a mixed bag—the Schell siblings are stellar as always, but some of the rest (particularly the Israeli commandoes) turn in pretty 2D, cardboard performances.

Look, it’s a film the knows the Nazis are the bad guys—it’s not great, but it’s got that going for it and sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that, once upon a time, people knew that.

Serviceable.

In 1963 (it was filmed in ‘74), John Voight plays a German reporter who reads the diary of a concentration camp survivor and pretends to be an ex-Nazi to infiltrate an organization so he can find the real Nazi who ran said camp, but is now designing missile guidance systems so Egypt can attack Israel, but really wants to avenge his (Voight’s, that is) dad who he never knew but learns the Nazi killed when he (Voight’s dad, that is) tried to stop him (the Nazi, that is) from commandeering a ship back in the war.

Or something. There’s probably a spoiler in there. Sorry.

This probably worked better as a novel, but as a movie it’s way too convoluted to be this dull. It features some of the oddest music cues I’ve heard in a while—a Perry Como X-mas song over the opening credits, an Andrew Lloyd Webber score that works overtime in all the wrong places, being loud and bombastic in the sneaking about scenes but utterly absent in the ostensibly exciting (which I’m using advisedly) fight scenes. While Voight’s hero character is a colossal asshole in nearly every scene, he almost makes it work by being anti-Nazi, and the supporting cast is a mixed bag—the Schell siblings are stellar as always, but some of the rest (particularly the Israeli commandoes) turn in pretty 2D, cardboard performances.

Look, it’s a film the knows the Nazis are the bad guys—it’s not great, but it’s got that going for it and sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that, once upon a time, people knew that.

Based on true event of world war 2 and the Jewish programme of eradication of the Nazi's

Not the best acting I've seen and the sound reproduction is quite poor, though the latter can be overlooked.

... work in progress...

Based on true event of world war 2 and the Jewish programme of eradication of the Nazi's

Not the best acting I've seen and the sound reproduction is quite poor, though the latter can be overlooked.

... work in progress...