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Castle Keep

Duration:

105 min

Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance | War

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Details

Country: USA

Filming Locations: Yugoslavia

Cast

Actor

Character

Astrid Heeren

Burt Lancaster

Maj. Abraham Falconer

Patrick O'Neal

Capt. Lionel Beckman

Jean-Pierre Aumont

The Count of Maldorais

Peter Falk

Sgt. Rossi

Scott Wilson

Cpl. Clearboy

Tony Bill

Lt. Amberjack

Al Freeman Jr.

Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin

James Patterson

Elk

Bruce Dern

Lt. Billy Byron Bix

Michael Conrad

Sgt. DeVaca

Caterina Boratto

Red Queen

Elizabeth Teissier

Red Queen Girl

Anne Marie Moskovenko

Red Queen Girl

Merja Alanen

Red Queen Girl

Olga Bisera

Baker's Wife (as Bisera)

Eija Pokkinen

Red Queen Girl (as Eya Tuli)

Elizabeth Darius

Red Queen Girl

Karen Blanguernon

Red Queen Girl

Marie Danube

Red Queen Girl

Harry Baird

Dancing Soldier (uncredited)

Ernest Clark

British Colonel (uncredited)

Jean Gimelo

First Puerto Rican (uncredited)

J. David Jones

One-Eared Soldier (uncredited)

Dusan Tadic

Evangelista (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The castle set in Yugoslavia blew up and burned to the ground. It was quite a surprise to the cast and crew. Sydney Pollack immediately grabbed the camera and shot what he could of the burning castle.

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Ronald "Butcher" DeFeo Jr. claimed he was watching this movie before he shot his parents and four younger siblings to death in Amityville, NY in 1974.

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70mm blow-up version released in Australia and Sweden.

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Goofs

When the German light plane is shot down by Captain Beckman, the smoke is clearly coming from smoke canisters attached to its wheel struts and not from any other part of the plane.

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When the soldiers push the VW into the moat, the passenger side window is open. The car sinks and then pops to the surface and floats (air tight and they really do float) ... but when it surfaces, the passenger window is up. Of course, the car would have stayed on the bottom, had the window been open.

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Although set during WW2, almost all the characters (including the women) wear 1960s hairstyles. Regulation army haircuts would never have permitted sideburns or hair long enough to touch the collar or go past the ears.

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Quotes

Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin: Napoleon before Venice said, 'If my cannon destroy but one statue, I would rather not take Venice.

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The Count: The Maldorais line must continue, and God must know where the Americans fit. Americans are brave, and that is why they seem like children. They are young, wild animals, so what can you expect?... I expect a child.

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Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin: My purpose is madness. It's the only way you can really tell what happens in war. By lying you can open the door a little crack on the truth.

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