Von Hapen is creepy in the way he checks out the women in his impeccably mannered but suspicious manner... Christoph Walz certainly modelled his performance as an SS character in 'Inglorious Basterds' on that quality
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This movie was in the cinemas in 1969, the same year as OHMSS. Both are set in the Alps, buildings on a mountain play a key role and there are action scenes around cable cars.
Smith's wicked laugh - looking over his shoulder from the sidecar - at all the mayhem he and Clint have left behind... reminds me of Telly Savalas's laugh back at Bond during the bob-sleigh chase of OHMSS
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Is the soldier who escorts the 'captured' three traitors through the cable car operating room George Cooper, the stuntman with the excessive sidesburns who played SPECTRE heavies in OHMSS and DAF (clean-shaven here, as the helmeted soldier)?
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Ferdy Mayne as Rosemeyer brings another touch of class to proceedings... the eminently 'reasonable' enemy general who seems to have a distaste for underhanded shenanigans but who is to be wonderfully gulled by Smith
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Why do Higgins and the other Germans bother to learn German at school when all of them speak English even among themselves?
I love the slight twinkle in Burton's eye as he jokes about Cartwright being really "a second-rate actor"
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Neil McCarthy makes an early exit... shame, he was underused...
Von Hapen is creepy in the way he checks out the women in his impeccably mannered but suspicious manner... Christoph Walz certainly modelled his performance as an SS character in 'Inglorious Basterds' on that quality
Philip Stone as the cable car operator... a character actor who was a favourite of Kubrick
Why aren't the commandoes issued with fake ID?
And a SPECTRE agent in Thunderball.
Memorable as the ghost of the homocidal waiter-cum-caretaker in 'The Shining'
This movie was in the cinemas in 1969, the same year as OHMSS. Both are set in the Alps, buildings on a mountain play a key role and there are action scenes around cable cars.
Kramer's sharp put-downs in his argument with Von Hapen make him (Kramer) an enemy/ villain somewhat sympathetic to the audience...
Yes, he's not a villain- just a man doing his job.
Edit: It's made even clearer in the novel.
Olga Lowe is a sort of Irma Bunt character, too... and Terence Mountain (OHMSS/ DAF) turns up later as one of the soldiers 'offed' by Clint
"You must be joking...."
Arming the bomb BEFORE setting up the tripwire? That's stupid and wrong...
Smith's wicked laugh - looking over his shoulder from the sidecar - at all the mayhem he and Clint have left behind... reminds me of Telly Savalas's laugh back at Bond during the bob-sleigh chase of OHMSS
Gotcha.
I like the fact that the leads are carrying 1-2 backpacks for all the explosives. You don't see that in many action movies.
They get through a lot of hardware during this mission.
That's true, but realism isn't one of this film's qualities.
The cable car scenes are ace 😁
So true. That's why this detail is so surprising.
I doubt anyone was watching the cable cars, especially in Bavaria.
Eastwood is really climbing the rope, Burton was pulled up 🤣
Is the soldier who escorts the 'captured' three traitors through the cable car operating room George Cooper, the stuntman with the excessive sidesburns who played SPECTRE heavies in OHMSS and DAF (clean-shaven here, as the helmeted soldier)?
I was thinking to myself that soldier had a familiar face, so that might explain why.
Sorry, I blinked there.
Terence Mountain dies convincingly, shot by Clint, as he does in DAF when surgical scalps are flung into him...
The Germans had the coolest uniforms of WWII (designed by Hugo Boss), but somehow they lost the war in spite of this. 😃
Ferdy Mayne as Rosemeyer brings another touch of class to proceedings... the eminently 'reasonable' enemy general who seems to have a distaste for underhanded shenanigans but who is to be wonderfully gulled by Smith