a5c7b9f00b Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI&#39;s occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagon. A baker among them moves in with another baker&#39;s wife. A group of shell shocked holy rollers wander the bombed out streets. A GI art historian tries vainly to protect the castle and its masterpieces. 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. A group of American soldiers defend an isolated castle against German soldiers.Castle Keep (1969) is an anti-war film directed by Syndey Pollack.The cast list looks quite handsome, starting from Burt Lancaster, who plays the one-eyed Major Falconer.Then we have Peter Falk playing Sergeant Rossi.Sadly we lost Peter, the great actor, last June at the age of 84.Patrick O&#39;Neal plays Captain Lionel Beckman.Jean-Pierre Aumont is The Count of Maldorais.Scott Wilson is Corporal Clearboy.Tony Bill plays Lieutenant Amberjack.Al Freeman Jr. is Private Allistair Piersall Benjamin.Bruce Dern plays the part of pacifist Lieutenant Billy Byron Bix.This movie is quite surreal, maybe even to the point it turns against it.But there was something I liked in this movie.One quite interesting scene was the German flute expert in the bushes. And man&#39;s undying love for Volkswagen is something I can&#39;t remember seeing in any other movies.Not to forget Peter Falk and the breads.If you have seen many war films, and you want to see something different, then you should watch this. The director of this 1969 movie must have been trippin&#39; on LSD during the filming of this picture. He was given an all star cast of excellent actors, a fantastic castle and town set locations, a great premise for an epic movie and he comes up with *this* drivel?<br/><br/>The film has absolutely *NO* plot, it alternates between a war movie, a comedy, an anti war movie, and does a uniformly bad job at all of them. There is 1960&#39;s &quot;hippy&quot; speeches, a roving group of religious zealots, a fully equipped fantasy whorehouse, a beautiful unblemished story book castle in the middle of a war zone late in 1944, and that&#39;s just the few things that pop immediately into my mind.<br/><br/>This movie is too bad to be good, too lame to be camp, too stupid to make *any* point except &quot;-Look at just how bad a director can fail-&quot;<br/><br/>Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Use the time for something more fulfilling- maybe clip your toe nails or darn your socks.
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