End of the Game (Der Richter und sein Henker) (The Judge and His Hangman) (1975)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 2
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Actor Maximillian Schell functioned as coproducer and director of End of the Game. Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story. Ritt plays Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years trying to pin the murder of the woman he loved on Richard Gastmann, an "untouchable" industrialist (Robert Shaw). When Barlach's assistant Donald Sutherland is killed while trying to get the goods on Gastmann, the inspector puts idealistic detective
Cast
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Jon Voight
Walter Tschantz -
Jacqueline Bisset
Anna Crawley -
Martin Ritt
Hans Barlach -
Robert Shaw
Richard Gastmann -
Helmut Qualtinger
von Schwendi -
Gabriele Ferzetti
Dr. Lutz -
Rita Calderoni
Nadine -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich -
Willy Huegli
Clenin -
Norbert Schiller
Dr. Hungertobel -
Guido Cerniglia
Coroner -
Otto Ryser
Blatter -
Rudolf Hunsperger
1st Guard -
Edy Hubacher
Guards -
Pinchas Zukerman
Violinist -
Lil Dagover
Mrs. Gastman -
Toni Roth
Old Lady -
Anton Netzer
Dr. Schallert -
Wieland Liebske
Taxi Driver -
Kathrin Brunner
Cleaning Girl -
Donald Sutherland
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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2)
The only emotion that the audience is likely to work up watching this unconscionable bore is an irresistible desire to be almost anywhere else but in the theater.
Top CriticInstead of every hour or half-hour, the cuckoo pops out every minute and a half.
By no means a great film, but it's a very good one that ought to be better known than it is.
[A] complex thriller.
An existential mystery story.
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[font=Century Gothic]Directed by Maximilian Schell, "End of the Game" is an uneven movie that squanders a very interesting premise. On the one hand, there is the chess-like plot, thoughts about free will and Martin Ritt enjoying himself playing a wily codger.(He has great chemistry with Robert Shaw but there is not enough of Shaw to go around.) But some scenes run on too long, especially the ones between Jon Voight and Jacqueline Bisset. Also hurting the movie are inadequate staging, disparate accents and Jon Voight's bizarre performance.[/font]