The Night of the Generals (Original title)La Nuit Des Géneraux (Alternative title)
Date: 1966 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, FranceDirector: Anatole Litvak
Synopsis: A prostitute who is also a German agent is murdered in 1942 Warsaw and a Major in German Intelligence investigates three Nazi generals.
Genres: Crime, War
Subjects: World War II, German army, Nazi Party, Warsaw
Date: 1966 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, FranceDirector: Anatole Litvak
Synopsis: A prostitute who is also a German agent is murdered in 1942 Warsaw and a Major in German Intelligence investigates three Nazi generals.
Genres: Crime, War
Subjects: World War II, German army, Nazi Party, Warsaw
Credits
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Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Production Company: Filmsonor (Paris), Producer: Sam Spiegel, Production Manager: Louis Wipf, Assistant Director: Tom Pevsner, Assistant Director: Jean-Pierre Perier-Pillu, Screenplay: Joseph Kessel, Screenplay: Paul Dehn, Additional dialogue: Paul Dehn, Original novel: Hans Helmut Kirst, Original incident written by: James Hadley Chase, Director of Photography: Henri Decaë, Editor: Alan Osbiston, Production Designer: Alexandre Trauner, Art Director: Auguste Capelier, Set Decorator: Maurice Barnathan, Titles: Robert Brownjohn, Titles: Robert Freeman, Titles: Norman J. Warren, Music composed and conducted: Maurice Jarre, Sound Recording: W.R. Sivel, Sound Recording: Jacques Carrère, Sound: Teddy Mason, Technical Adviser: Andrew Mollo
Cast
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Peter O'Toole (General Tanz), Omar Sharif (Major Grau), Tom Courtenay (Corporal Hartmann), Donald Pleasence (General Kahlenberge), Joanna Pettet (Ulrike), Philippe Noiret (Inspector Morand), Charles Gray (General von Seydlitz-Gabler), Coral Browne (Eleanore von Seydlitz-Gabler), John Gregson (Colonel Sandauer), Nigel Stock (Otto), Christopher Plummer (Field Marshal Rommel), Juliette Gréco (Juliette), Yves Brainville (Liesowski), Gérard Buhr (von Stauffenberg), Sacha Pitoëff (Doctor), Charles Millot (Wionezek), Raymond Gérôme (Colonel, War Room), Véronique Vendell (Monique), Pierre Mondy (Kopatski), Eléonore Hirt (Melanie), Nicole Courcel (Raymonde), Jenny Orléans (Otto's Wife), Michael Goodliffe (Hauser), Gordon Jackson (Captain Engel), Patrick Allen (Colonel Mannheim), Harry Andrews (Military Governor of France)