Rogue Male

Runtime : 103 mins

Genre : Drama War TV Movie

Vote Rating : 6.4/10

Release Date : 22 September 1976

Plot : In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

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Cast Members

Sir Robert Thorndyke
played by
Peter O'Toole

Major Quive
played by
Smith

The Earl
played by
Alastair Sim

Saul Abrahams
played by
Harold Pinter

Interrogator
played by
Michael Byrne

Vaner
played by
Mark McManus

Fisherman
played by
Ray Smith

Peale
played by
Hugh Manning

Jessel
played by
Robert Lang

Reviews

Based on Geoffrey Household's rather far-fetched book, Peter O'Toole is British aristocrat "Sir Robert" who lays plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler before the start of WWII. After missing an open goal his plan goes awry, and after some fairly brutal torture at the hands of his captor Michael Byrne, he manages to flee the scene of his own proposed demise and to make it back to Blighty where his solicitor and kindly uncle (Alastair Sim) recommends he keep his head down for fear his plot be publicised, and the country be dragged into war...! The Nazis have not, however, given up on their chase and his efforts to stay out of their sights quite literally drive him underground. It is all just a bit silly, to be honest, and the sort of stiff-upper-lip gentlemanly code of hunter and hunted borders a little too much on the sarcastic to be scary and not enough to be amusing - even though O'Toole does have some quite pithy put downs for his Aryan pursuers. It is just about worth watching for fans of the star, but the rest of it need not have been remade from the superior 1941 iteration.