{"id":11858,"date":"2015-07-21T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2015-07-21T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:52:59","slug":"tales-of-murder-and-cads-the-night-of-the-generals-1967-and-triple-crown-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11858","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Murder and Cads: The Night of the Generals (1967) and Triple Crown (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NightOfTheGenerals_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11874\" alt=\"NightOfTheGenerals_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NightOfTheGenerals_poster.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NightOfTheGenerals_poster.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NightOfTheGenerals_poster-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Genre bending and creating hybrids or \u2018re-imaginings\u2019 (a contemporary, voguish term I loathe) certainly aren\u2019t unique, but the two mini-epics (if not in scope, than certainly in production values + casting) reviewed today show a classic genre \u2013 the WWII epic \u2013 being reworked for contemporary audiences, with some duress coming from unexpected areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11861\">The Night of the Generals<\/a><\/strong> (1967) is a serial killer mystery set before and leading right up to the failed Hitler assassination plot Operation Valkyrie, whereas <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11857\">Triple Cross<\/a><\/strong> (1966) transforms the true-life adventures of a British double-agent supposedly working for the Nazis into a James Bondian hero with unsuppressed caddish behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Night<\/strong>, the creative fight was in meshing two very different stories that often took attention away from the other, whereas in <strong>Crown<\/strong> it\u2019s a case of reigning in the richness of an already colourful figure \u2013 former safe cracker-turned-war hero Eddie Chapman and Christopher Plummer&#8217;s broad, giddy performance style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Night<\/strong> benefits from another sterling HD transfer, showcased on Blu via Twilight Time with Maurice Jarre\u2019s fairly sparse score in stereo, whereas <strong>Cross<\/strong> is still screaming for a proper release that restores the film not only to its reportedly original 140 min. running time, but from proper clean film elements.<\/p>\n<p>My review source for <strong>Cross<\/strong> is the 2008 German Region 0 PAL DVD from Poseidon that features <em>both<\/em> the shorter U.S. edit and longer German edit, albeit neither version comes with English subtitles. Worse, both films are packed into a single layer DVD, so there\u2019s much to gripe about even though you do get to see both versions \u2013 you just need a bit of basic German to get the gist of the deleted scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Coming tomorrow is my podcast interview with Fabio Frizzi, who just announced he will indeed be in Toronto with his Frizzi 2 Fulci concert at The Opera House. See the event\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/596262720516354\/?ref=3&amp;ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&amp;feed_story_type=17&amp;action_history=null\" target=\"window\">Facebook page<\/a> for further info.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of Anatole Litvak and Sam Spiegel&#8217;s The Night of the Generals (1967) on Blu from Twilight + Terence Young&#8217;s Triple Cross (1966) on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3810,2562,2563,3807,397,3801,3798],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NightOfTheGenerals_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-35g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11879,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions\/11879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}