The Night of the Generals (Film 1967)

The Night of the Generals is a 1967 Franco-British-American Second World War crime mystery film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Sam Spiegel. Click on CC for English subtitles.

The screenplay by Joseph Kessel and Paul Dehn was loosely based on the beginning of the novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. The musical score was composed by Maurice Jarre.

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Cast & Characters:
Peter O'Toole as General Wilhelm Tanz
Omar Sharif as Major (Lt. Colonel) Grau
Tom Courtenay as Lance Corporal Kurt Hartmann
Donald Pleasence as General Klaus Kahlenberge
Joanna Pettet as Ulrike von Seidlitz-Gabler
Philippe Noiret as Inspector Morand
Charles Gray as General Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler
Coral Browne as Eleonore von Seidlitz-Gabler
John Gregson as Colonel Sandauer
Nigel Stock as Sergeant Otto Köpke
Christopher Plummer as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel