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Counterpoint is a 1968 war film starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays and Leslie Nielsen. It is based on the novel The General by Alan Sillitoe. In the United States the film was released as a double feature with Sergeant Ryker, a 1963 television film starring Lee Marvin.
- Universal Pictures
- Richard Berg
Counterpoint: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen. A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
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Roger Ebert July 23, 1968. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Counterpoint" is possibly the most unlikely war movie of 1968, but it has a perverse charm and a lot of good classical music. It also has atmosphere: A captured Belgian castle, gloomy and foreboding, with spider webs in the wine cellars and monomaniacal maestros and ...
American orchestra conductor Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston), during a show in recently liberated Belgium, is captured with his musicians when Nazi troops ambush them. Held captive and told they ...
- Ralph Nelson
- Charlton Heston
Synopsis. For every move… a counter move - for every attack… a counter attack! In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a ...
Summaries. A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals. During a December 1944 German offensive in Belgium, a USO symphonic orchestra entertaining the front-line American troops is captured by the Germans.
