yep looimus

dr loomuis the guy who nows how to kill micheal myers

Another actor who would have been good as Himmler was Bob Gunton ( the warden in "The Shawshank Redemption), he looked a bit like Himmler

@@joeleger6488 good point. Great acting as the warden too..

I'm sure of it.

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How do you know? Ever met Himmler?

Yes, I have. He was a good conversationalist. Greatly misunderstood. May have gone a bit overboard in certain areas, however.

@@jstrahan2 lmfao

@@sick-and-sour - he's actually not wrong despite his sarcasm. Himmler was a good conversationalist, was greatly misunderstood, and did indeed go a bit overboard in certain areas. Movies and biased documentaries lead us to believe that Nazis were blithering idiots. They weren't. The prosecution had a really tough time at the Nuremburg trials to convict them. Legitimately the prosecution never won, they had to force certain narratives in order to close the chapter on the trials towards execution. Also because the Soviets were getting impatient. Lets not be mistaken by the Naziboo accusation, they really were incredibly sharp. They only lost because they bit far more than they could chew, hypnotized by their own competence.

I quite agree! Did you ever see him in THX 1138?

@@charleshowie2074 he is great in that one

@@ATOK_ Fistbump!

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he was pretty old tho, dude LOLOLOL

That and directors that will actually let actors act in long takes.

No doubt. So damn creepy.

The book is worth reading. It is very high paced, never a dull moment in any chapter. I can see why Jack Higgins is one of the best selling writers around. He loves to toy with historical events so if the movie followed the book very closely, half of it is fictional and the other half is documented historical fact. Higgins leaves it up to the readers/viewers to find out which is true or speculation.

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He is good with the small details too. I was impressed he was able to convey the evil of Heinrich Himmler and put on the pince-nez quite naturally. I've seen one guy struggle to get them clipped to his nose and had to use both hands to do it

Which is a shame. It’s a great movie

The movie was NOT a "bust". It was moderately successful.

@@jstrahan2 it was a very big hit in europe and the far east and australia new zealand etc and did moderately well in north america.it also had an afterlife as one of the most sucessful video tapes released in the early years of vhs/betamax.

Pleasance was scary as hell always! I once went into a pub in Strand-on- the- green in London and Pleasance was sitting on his own at the bar talking to the barman. The pub was empty and his voice carried. I immediately thought of all those sinister characters that he had played over the years. A brilliant actor.

Michael, your psychiatrist was once a Nazi soldier in WW2.

I suggest taking some Activia to help cure those six shots.

michael? why now? you waited 40 years... I knew this day would come. Michael since when you are capabel to talk?

Michael I feel you....I can hear your evil heart beating and I also feel that mr Donald pleasence as your Psychiastric, ´´Doctor loomis´´, passed away. That why you busted up the head of the new Dr loomis in your new movie

Have you heard that phase before?

Still discrepancy as to wether released theatrically in 1976 or 1977. Either way was too young to watch at the theater on my own.

The whole cast is just brilliant

There is a small change in the discussion they had and I wish they had left it alone. In the novel by Jack Higgins, just as Radl is about to leave, Himmler says very coldly "Remember herr Oberst, failure is a sign of weakness." it was meant to foreshadow something later on in the book when Radl found himself in a cell at the mercy of the gestapo, awaiting interrogation. It seems Himmler was not happy with the outcome of the operation. Many of the events in the book are based on a real incident called the Slapton Sands incident. A German patrol boat intercepted Allied troops practicing with their new landing craft for the famous 6 June invasion.

@@largol33t1 However the plot to capture or kill Churchill is a actually based on "Operation Long jump", a plot to assasinate "the Big Three" at the Tehran conference...

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And tom thumb, paul bunion and the such.

Probably brought a lot of 'gravitas' to the set of The Great Escape.

flew as a radio operator on over 60 missions. Was shot down and interned in stalag 1 for about one year I think, according to wiki anyway. So many actors of the 60s and 70s did real war service

Actually the mission was to kidnap Churchill not kill him.

@@ray.shoesmith True but my point remains valid however I don't want to give away the twist at the end of the movie for anyone who has yet to see it.

This would make a great audition piece

Indeed: even his depiction of Stalin was well done.

That's good. I can see that. Although I am not quite sure Duval is as expressive or could rant as much as Mussolini did. But he has the looks

He was great as Stalin and even better as Euchmann

Velociraptor Imperator Christ that's a bid nerdy. its a movie, not a documentary. they can't get everything correct. get a life man.

got one "thanks"

Great conversation starter.

I have a question. Later on Himmler tears up the letter by Hitler. I’ve wondered was this because it was a forgery by the SS and he didn’t want a paper trail? Does anyone have an answer for this?

@@banzai70 1) As long as Radl had physical possession of the letter Radl was immune to Himmler's persecution, thus the letter had to be destroyed to prevent it's use AFTER the mission started. 2) Without the actual letter no one had any proof that Himmler was behind a super secret mission that failed. In the end it was all about Himmler protecting himself and erasing any evidence, both on paper or in the person of Radl,of failure. Failure was not looked up favorably in the 3rd Reich. R.L.T.W./A.T.W.

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AND HE DID

No he did not, as for the plot, when the plot failed the Germans would not execute a hero because the plan that he had devised fails, what is the point of that?

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