1968
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During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage within.
- (3.5K)
- Action, Comedy, Drama
- Sydney Pollack
- 1969-09-20
Castle Keep is a 1969 American war comedy-drama film combining surrealism with tragic realism. It was directed by Sydney Pollack , and starred Burt Lancaster , Patrick O'Neal , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Bruce Dern and Peter Falk .
Burt Lancaster plays a one-eyed American Army major leading a small company of GIs in France near the end of the war. Hoping to catch a little R-and-R, the weary squad occupies an ancient castle in the Ardennes Forest owned by an impotent nobleman who urges Lancaster to father an heir for him.
- Sydney Pollack
- Burt Lancaster
The enlisted men seek their own pleasures in the brothel of the nearby town, the psychedelic "Reine Rouge" (Red Queen) run by a mystical madam, while Beckman marvels at the castle's artworks, many of which are stored beneath the castle for safekeeping.
- 103 min
- 5.9K
- 31 Flavors
A one-eyed World War II Army major (Burt Lancaster) and his men occupy a Belgian count's (Jean-Pierre Aumont) castle open to a German attack.
- (10)
- Sydney Pollack
- R
- Burt Lancaster
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During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his remote 10th Century castle hoping a battle there against the advancing Germans will not lead to its destruction and all the heritage within.
