The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
IMDB Rating: 6.40, 559 votes
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Taglines
- From Ibanez' immortal classic, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an unforgettable motion picture
- Paris, city of lovers...the day the clocks stopped turning and the world stood still...
Storyline
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS. During WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France. Heinrich would come and go. Julio was a playboy. Chichi joined the resistance and was eventually tortured to death by Gestapo. Julio has a relation to a woman whose husband is a POW, and who will after release become a district leader within the resistance movement. Julio eventually feels that it is his duty to fight the Nazis. With a firm reputation as a superficial playboy, he can attend the nightclub favoured by German officers and gather much important information. Finally he and another partisan (posing as his chauffeur) accept a highly important suicidal task involving a courtesy call to Heinrich.
Actors
| Julio Desnoyers | Glenn Ford |
| Marguerite Laurier | Ingrid Thulin |
| Marcelo Desnoyers | Charles Boyer |
| Julio Madariaga | Lee J. Cobb |
| Karl von Hartrott | Paul Lukas |
| Chi Chi Desnoyers | Yvette Mimieux |
| Heinrich von Hartrott | Karlheinz Böhm |
| Etienne Laurier | Paul Henreid |
| Dona Luisa Desnoyers | Harriet E. MacGibbon |
| Elena von Hartrott | Kathryn Givney |
| Armand Dibier | Marcel Hillaire |
| Gen. von Kleig | George Dolenz |
| Col. Kleinsdorf | Stephen Bekassy |
| Miguel | Nestor Paiva |
| François | Albert Rémy |
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Posted in: 1962, Drama, High IMDB rating
Tagged: air raid, argentina, based on novel, citizenship, death, divorce, espionage, general, gestapo, immigrant, love, murder, nazi, nightclub, normandy, occupation, paris, partisan, playboy, resistance, ss, torture, wwii