Above average spy adventure w/young Jon Voight.
The Odessa File (1974)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:9
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set in 1963 Germany, right after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a young German freelance journalist finds himself in possession of a journal left by a concentration camp survivor... Set in 1963 Germany, right after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a young German freelance journalist finds himself in possession of a journal left by a concentration camp survivor who has committed suicide. From the diary the journalist realizes that former Nazi SS officers are still living in Germany protected by the government and furnished with money and whatever else they need by an underground society called "Odessa." His attempt to track down one particular notorious officer leads him to discover the truth about something that happened in the past. [More]
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Derek Jacobi, Maria Schell
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Derek Jacobi, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Peter Jeffrey, Klaus Lowitsch, Kurt Meisel
Director: Ronald Neame
Director: Ronald Neame
Producer: John Woolf
Screenwriter: George Markstein, Kenneth Ross
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Reviews for The Odessa File
Neame's uninspired direction has a great performance by Jon Voight get thrown under the train.
Voight's performance gives credibility to his character's obsession, but even that cannot overcome the discrepancy between the deeper themes and the routine nature of this piece of box-office action adventure.
Unfortunately, this ends up being mostly a series of mano-a-mano confrontations behind closed doors, with the "revelations" reaching absurd level by the end.
Tightly plotted and for the most part pretty convincing Cold War thriller built around a typically muscular performance by Voight.
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