----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Maybe someone can help me out... I'm trying to find out the details of >a film I saw in the mid 1980's in LA on a late-night premium cable >channel, but which I cannot find any info on. The story takes place >in a French castle that is being occupied by the German Army during >WWII. A member of the Resistance from the village adjacent to the >castle executes a methodical plan of sabotaging the castle's infra- >structure in order to render the German presence untenable. > >I somehow got it stuck in my head that the title was THE CASTLE >and that the cast included Max. Schell -- but it is clearly NOT the >film version of Kafka's novel "K", titled THE CASTLE (1968) and >starring Schell. So I must have confused myself somewhere along >the line while trying to recall the film... but I could have sworn it >had this title, and had this actor in it... > >I'm starting to wonder a little bit whether I conjured the whole thing >in my imagination (if I did, then my mind certainly fired life to a >gripping image stream, one possessing methodical, mounting, >relentless narrative force and suspense, plus a wonderfully cogent >structure...) Can anybody shed any light on the subject? > >Gary Weston Fuchs >[log in to unmask] ======================== Could this be CASTLE KEEP (1969) dir. by Sydney Pollack? With Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Jean-Pierre Aumont, etc. from a novel by William Eastlake? Surreal ,bizarre, different, not altogether successful yet somewhat like CATCH 22 No Maximilian Schell in it. EJ