Post by Zone Fighter on Dec 19, 2006 17:11:45 GMT -8
Rogue Male (1976)
based on the novel by Geoffrey Household (which I've read)
Peter O'Toole - Sir Robert Thorndyke
John Standing - Major Quive-Smith
Alastair Sim - The Earl
Harold Pinter - Saul Abrahams
Michael Byrne - Interrogator
Mark McManus - Vaner
Ray Smith - Fisherman
Hugh Manning - Peale
Robert Lang - Jessel
Cyd Hayman - Rebecca
Ian East - Muller
Philip Jackson - 1st Seaman
Nicholas Ball - 2nd Seaman
Maureen Lipman - Freda
Ray Mort - Gerald
Michael Sheard - Adolf Hitler
Shirley Dynevor - Eva Braun
Ivor Roberts - Mr. Drake
Julia Chambers - Daughter
Jean Rimmer - Postmistress
George Selway - Captain
Declan Mulholland - Cook
Early 1939: Englisman Sir Robert Thorndyke has fallen in love with a Jewish woman. A skilled hunter he decides to shoot Adolf Hitler in revenge for the Nazi's killing the woman. He's spotted by a Gestapo officer who pounces on him just as he pulls the trigger. His shot hits dead center in a coffee pot. The Gastapo officer beleaving him to be a British agent tortures him to make him talk. Finally convinced that he acted on his own the interegator plans for him to die in a hunting accident. He survives the accident and makes it back to England but soon realises that he's not save even there. Not only are German agents after him but since England is not yet at war with Germany the British government considers him a criminal and would honor an extradiction request.
Robert Thorndyke using the pen name Robert Hunter wrote a book on hunting. The German agent reads the book to figure out where Sir Robert would go and how to flush him out.
On a $1 DVD (along with Cape Town Affair [1967]). Color is faded but otherwise not bad video quality. It's been a while since I read the novel but I think the book is better than this TV movie but for a dollar its not a bad little movie.
based on the novel by Geoffrey Household (which I've read)
Peter O'Toole - Sir Robert Thorndyke
John Standing - Major Quive-Smith
Alastair Sim - The Earl
Harold Pinter - Saul Abrahams
Michael Byrne - Interrogator
Mark McManus - Vaner
Ray Smith - Fisherman
Hugh Manning - Peale
Robert Lang - Jessel
Cyd Hayman - Rebecca
Ian East - Muller
Philip Jackson - 1st Seaman
Nicholas Ball - 2nd Seaman
Maureen Lipman - Freda
Ray Mort - Gerald
Michael Sheard - Adolf Hitler
Shirley Dynevor - Eva Braun
Ivor Roberts - Mr. Drake
Julia Chambers - Daughter
Jean Rimmer - Postmistress
George Selway - Captain
Declan Mulholland - Cook
Early 1939: Englisman Sir Robert Thorndyke has fallen in love with a Jewish woman. A skilled hunter he decides to shoot Adolf Hitler in revenge for the Nazi's killing the woman. He's spotted by a Gestapo officer who pounces on him just as he pulls the trigger. His shot hits dead center in a coffee pot. The Gastapo officer beleaving him to be a British agent tortures him to make him talk. Finally convinced that he acted on his own the interegator plans for him to die in a hunting accident. He survives the accident and makes it back to England but soon realises that he's not save even there. Not only are German agents after him but since England is not yet at war with Germany the British government considers him a criminal and would honor an extradiction request.
Robert Thorndyke using the pen name Robert Hunter wrote a book on hunting. The German agent reads the book to figure out where Sir Robert would go and how to flush him out.
On a $1 DVD (along with Cape Town Affair [1967]). Color is faded but otherwise not bad video quality. It's been a while since I read the novel but I think the book is better than this TV movie but for a dollar its not a bad little movie.