Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is the first Peter O'Toole movie I've seen and I must say I'm rather impressed. I liked the movie a lot and I recommend to other viewers. Of course the film should have been remastered before being transferred to DVD but there isn't much you can do about that is there. I also could do without the nail-biting scenes, but it does have a sense of true brutality that the film had to have. This movie, I don't believe, really needed anymore females in it than it already had because it is more of a manly film and Peter O'Toole doesn't pretty much carry the film. I love classic movies and this one definitely is. Hopefully, a lot of these great films get finally remastered for young people (well I'm 24 right now which really isn't young anymore) to see and enjoy.

Unlike his protagonist, director Clive Donner's masterful tale hits its mark on all levels. In adapting the over 50 year-old novel (which I have not read), Donner takes Peter O'Toole through one of his most charming and ruthless roles. The views are taken on a journey into the depths of man's obsession with security and vengeance.Inspired by the death of his lover Rebecca, O'Toole hunts down the man he considers most responsible for her execution: Adolph Hitler. With World War II not yet reaching the shores of England, Hitler finds himself in the sights of O'Toole rifle. With a masterful shot of dark coffee flowing over a white tablecloth, the viewer realized that O'Toole has missed his shot, and his physical torture begins.In crafting a made-for-TV film, Donner was limited somewhat in the graphic nature of the presentation. But, he overcomes this by portraying the most shocking scenes (the extraction of O'Toole's fingernails and the death Major Quive-Smith) with a morbid sense of humor.The same humor is present in the short (but delightful) exchange between O'Toole and the great Alistair Sims. While Sims makes nothing more certain than he is turning his back on O'Toole, the manner in which he does this is exceptional to watch.Indeed, it is the sense of humor throughout the film that helps to propel the story. Rather that feel any emotional attachment for O'Toole, I was more interested in his manner of survival and escape. This emotional dis-attachment is the only reason I scored this film an 8. While I can accept the reason for his revenge, I think that in today's world, such a person would likely be labeled insane and hated by the general public.

I found this film lurking in the BBC Archives with dust on it.Last viewed the year it came out.It is an immensely atmospheric film shot in that typical seventies film which has aged - slightly murky and blurred with low and dark colour range, a bit like Bergerac or outside scenes of Fawlty Towers! I think Peter O'Toole does a great job in this and is so suited to the role and is really the only real acting presence apart from perhaps the chap he shoots at the end.There are a couple of nice quirky characters though who he meets on the , like the couple who sell him a tandem in a quaint village in Dorset and his plump uncle who we only ever see in a Turkish steam room.This a a good bit of greyish British seventies TV.

I was an American student back in '76 studying overseas at Oxford, and took a break from the books and just happened to see this movie from the beginning. What a thriller. I don't recall much of it; just that it captivated me throughout. I'm glad to now know the title of the show (from looking up O'Toole,) and is now going to be one of my pleasant pursuits at Blockbuster to find it and watch it again, now with my family and son!!