Talk:The Night of the Generals

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong article

The title "The Night of the Generals" is primary a great novel by the famous german post-war wrighter Hans Hellmuth Kirst Even if the film has the same name the film do not follow the novel for more then the first 5 minutes, there after does the film gets to "nothing we haven't seen before". Not even Peter O'Toole can save the film - the novel however is far more famous and translated into allmost all european languages. The film is only some kind of question if a mid rank officer really can arrest a general. The novel describes three rather different kind of personalites - often with good laughs that comes unexpected. Even generals are human - thow only one of them tries to be fair. One is a poor frightend man behind his uniform and the third is a sadist. The final judgement does not reach the murderer until after the war, in East Berlin and has many human good points to concider. Usally people say "the book was better then the film", but often dued to the fact that they have read the book first - and then seen the movie. But in the case of "The Night of the Generals" - there is no doubt for anyone (that both reads and watches film), that the book is at a far higher level , and yet is very easy to read. Could someone please write about the novel as well. I'm not familiar with how to "split" an article. Or Wikipedia people only watches film ? reguards John —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.33.147 (talk) 23:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you find insulting people you don't know in such a condecending manner to be an effective method of persuasion? I've never had much luck with it myself, but then I'm only a Wikipedia person who on;y watches film. - BilCat (talk) 09:29, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rommel

I don't think the movie says that Rommel dies, he is simply injured by a plane, as happened in real life on July 17th, the wikipedia article is completely erroneous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.78.194.182 (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural Impact?

The cultural impact section seems complete irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the film other than by coincidence. It seems like something that should be deleted. Verlaine76 (talk) 18:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree and removed it.--Kmhkmh (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cast

Tom Courtenay has been listed incorrectly as "Private Hartmann." His character is a Lance Corporal. ^[1] M.P. Landau (talk) 16:47, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062038/

"Reception"

Is this film a so almost universally loathed as to make it fair and NPOV for only one review to be quoted, and than one quite negative? I, for one, rather liked the film, especially the final scene and the moral "it's always a good day to catch a murderer," showing how Grau was in reality a good man being used in the service of an evil system. 2600:1004:B12F:C0C9:0:10:6845:4801 (talk) 19:48, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062038/

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