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Castle Keep

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5.7/10 • 74

1969-07-231h 45m

ComedyDramaWar

A one-eyed major and his oddball heroes fight a twentieth-century war in a tenth-century castle!

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Directors
Sydney Pollack
Editors
Malcolm Cooke

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  1. Burt Lancaster

    Burt Lancaster

    Maj. Abraham Falconer

  2. Jean-Pierre Aumont

    Jean-Pierre Aumont

    The Count of Maldorais

  3. Peter Falk

    Peter Falk

    Sgt. Rossi

  4. Bruce Dern

    Bruce Dern

    Lt. Billy Byron Bix

  5. Patrick O'Neal

    Patrick O'Neal

    Capt. Lionel Beckman

  6. Astrid Heeren

    Astrid Heeren

    Therese

  7. Scott Wilson

    Scott Wilson

    Cpl. Clearboy

  8. Tony Bill

    Tony Bill

    Lt. Amberjack

  9. Al Freeman Jr.

    Al Freeman Jr.

    Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin

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John Chard Avatar

John Chard

Dec 24, 2013

3/10

You can keep this movie. Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack and adapted to screenplay by Daniel Taradash and David Rayfiel from the novel written by William Eastlake. Starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Dern, Patrick O’Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Peter Falk. Music is by Michel Legrand and cinematography by Henri Decae. Ambitious for sure, intriguing even, but ultimately a misfiring piece of pretentious tosh! An endgame allegory that finds Lancaster in WWII leading the defence of a medieval castle and its art collection against the German hordes. The action when it comes is savage and colourful, and Lancaster’s one eyed Major is good fun, it’s just everything else is masquerading as a near hallucinogenic anti-war movie mixed with euro pontifications. There’s some war is hell messages in the mix desperately trying to get out, either as satire or serious (it’s really hard to tell), but this is ultimately faux-art and painful to sit through until the explosions mercifully grace the last quarter of picture. 3/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
based on novel or bookcastlebattle of the bulge