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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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Old 09-10-2007, 06:23 PM
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I never realised that the Odessa File was a British/German co production so I suppose it can be claimed a a favourite British film. Nice signature tune sung by Perry Como "Christmas Dream" written by Andrew lloyd Webber. Super cast, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi. The sinister Nazis are superbly played. As always Gunter Meisner plays the role of a Nazi fanatic really well, the scene when he makes his speech in the beer hall is brilliant. Derek Jacobi the nervous forger who is constantly worried about "Mother"
The black and white sequences of the horrors of the concentration camps and the psychopathic brutality of the Camp commandant (Maximilian Schell) is very poignant still.
A good story well filmed and directed.

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I never realised that the Odessa File was a British/German co production so I suppose it can be claimed a a favourite British film. Nice signature tune sung by Perry Como "Christmas Dream" written by Andrew lloyd Webber. Super cast, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi. The sinister Nazis are superbly played. As always Gunter Meisner plays the role of a Nazi fanatic really well, the scene when he makes his speech in the beer hall is brilliant. Derek Jacobi the nervous forger who is constantly worried about "Mother"
The black and white sequences of the horrors of the concentration camps and the psychopathic brutality of the Camp commandant (Maximilian Schell) is very poignant still.
A good story well filmed and directed.
One Ronald Neame's last really fine films before going down the toilet with Meteor
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I never realised that the Odessa File was a British/German co production so I suppose it can be claimed a a favourite British film. Nice signature tune sung by Perry Como "Christmas Dream" written by Andrew lloyd Webber. Super cast, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi. The sinister Nazis are superbly played. As always Gunter Meisner plays the role of a Nazi fanatic really well, the scene when he makes his speech in the beer hall is brilliant. Derek Jacobi the nervous forger who is constantly worried about "Mother"
The black and white sequences of the horrors of the concentration camps and the psychopathic brutality of the Camp commandant (Maximilian Schell) is very poignant still.
A good story well filmed and directed.
I saw this movie in Stafford when it was first released. I was peniless at the time... and whenever I see it on TV these days it brings back memories of those halcyon(???) days! Just imagine seeing this movie under such circumstances... obviously it made a lasting impression.
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One Ronald Neame's last really fine films before going down the toilet with Meteor
yes I agree "Meteor" was awful, I think Neame must have got that film on the back of "The Posseidon Adventure" another disaster movie that he directed which was very succesfull, I beleive he made a huge amount of money from that one as he had a share of the box office. He did redeem himself the next year I think with "Hopscotch" with Walter Matthau, that was pretty good as I remember. As for"The Odessa File", I haven't seen it for years but I do remember it being a fab film, must go and find a copy and have a look again.
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To some extent, I suppose, the Odessa File is outshone by the first Frederick Forsyth film, The Day of the Jackal. But they are, to my mind, both super movies and excellent adaptations of the novels. Later films from the books of this author did not really live up to the first two. The Fourth Protocol is not bad but The Dogs of War did not really do it for me, either as a book or a film.
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yes I agree "Meteor" was awful, I think Neame must have got that film on the back of "The Posseidon Adventure" another disaster movie that he directed which was very succesfull, I beleive he made a huge amount of money from that one as he had a share of the box office. He did redeem himself the next year I think with "Hopscotch" with Walter Matthau, that was pretty good as I remember. As for"The Odessa File", I haven't seen it for years but I do remember it being a fab film, must go and find a copy and have a look again.

The DVD format is fine for quality but I wish they had kept it in its widescreen format.
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I love the Odessa File and probably just about prefer it to the The Day of the Jackal.
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