Review – The Night of the Generals

This movie reminded me of the line in Apocalypse Now about how trying to punish someone for a crime in the middle of a war is sort of like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. Add the Nazis to the equation, and the story becomes still more bizarre. A German officer (Omar Sharif) investigating the murder of a prostitute in Warsaw in 1942 learns that a Wehrmacht general committed the crime. Suspicion falls on three individuals (Charles Gray, Donald Pleasance and Peter O’Toole), but investigating such high-ranking suspects proves difficult. Two years later a similar killing occurs in Paris, but this time the chase is further complicated by the extra layers of secrecy among commanding officers involved in the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler and depose the Nazi regime. I was disappointed by the lack of clever twists, about which I can say no more without giving the whole thing away. Mildly amusing