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April 19, 2023… #movieoftheday is Rogue Male (1976)
“Rogue Male is a 1976 British television film starring Peter O'Toole , based on Geoffrey Household 's 1939 novel Rogue Male . Made by the BBC , it was adapted by Frederic Raphael , directed by Clive Donner and also stars Alastair Sim , John Standing and Harold Pinter . It was first broadcast on 22 September 1976."
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"In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War , Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo , he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high social rank in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off a cliff to disguise the signs.
"However, Hunter survives the fall…" more at >>> Wikipedia
#roguemale #history #fiction #wikipedia
“Rogue Male is a 1976 British television film starring Peter O'Toole , based on Geoffrey Household 's 1939 novel Rogue Male . Made by the BBC , it was adapted by Frederic Raphael , directed by Clive Donner and also stars Alastair Sim , John Standing and Harold Pinter . It was first broadcast on 22 September 1976."
PLOT
"In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War , Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo , he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high social rank in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off a cliff to disguise the signs.
"However, Hunter survives the fall…" more at >>> Wikipedia
#roguemale #history #fiction #wikipedia
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