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This is certainly top-of-line within the Endeavor Series, which runs in Germany under the deceptive title of "The Young Inspector Morse" with the episode titled as "Castle in the Sky" putting the focus on the collapsing building, whereas "Deguello" - at least for everybody who has watched "The Alamo" and "Rio Bravo" - has the clear pointing towards the very final fight with no mercy or pardon given.

But - mild spoiler - there is a sense of relief for almost all the key characters either thru death, a turnaround from the wrong path and redemption by action, unexpected heroes and the resolution of horizontal stories spanning this season and the previous one. Only Morse is, as usual, the desperate loner at the end, even if his life is spared despite facing impossible odds.

The story itself brings together two seemingly unrelated stories - the murder of an Oxford Librarian and the deaths of many residents of the beforementioned collapsing "castle in the sky" which is not an accident but at least an act of criminal negligence meshed with corruption in high public offices.

And even the Pelikan has his Bright moment.

The Episode came out three years after the. Dirty Harry - Calahan sequel about a "mop-up" force of young motobike cops going after criminals that had jumped their justified penalty on technicalities or lack of evidence. Here it is not an insider, but somebody who desperately wants to be one - but didn't make it thru police school but now reads police traffic and takes action into his own hands. Bill Bixby is again the antagonist and plays it brilliantly - but obviously Stone and Heller are not ready to hand over their core work to him and are to bring him down. See for yourself, if and how they succeed.

I have to conced that I had quite a crush on. Cheryl Miller as the daughter of Marshall Thompson in Daktari when it aired in Germany 50 years ago. She knew how to wear Jeans for sure. Now, as we get to revisit the SoSF in another syndication repeat, I noted for the first time she played other roles also - and quite good. Stone and Heller are chasing a government killer, who goes freelancing for a radical group, that doesn't like good relations with China - what an absurd motif ?. The whole thing moves fast, the killer is a man of many appearances and disguises and Stone and Heller are permanently on their heels trying to get hold of him. Cheryl Miller ? She looks great, picks up the killer into her apartment but curiosity killed the... But she holds the clue to the solution in her hand.

Obviously it is impossible to do a deep, scientific research, but 27 years back the now staple "Münchhausen by Proxy" syndrome was probably an innovative thing. The episode itself is alternating between sympathy and horror for the parents,cluelessness by the detectives and as we go, sorrow for the kids that were exposed. But not a real gem within the L&O universe.

Obviously any movie dealing with the Refugee Crisis is measured against a serious backdrop of political and human implications The Movie deals with this nicely and is one of the clearly better German comedies as they come. Set in Munich against the backdrop of a well being Upperclass family with some cracks in their world and the entry of a different side to their world with Refugees, gone wild old hippies, German alt rights and more when the Lady of the house for a mix of reasons decides to invite an refugee to their house. This sets in motion quite a nice series of events bringing the family back into shape and resolving issues. All roles well cast with top notch German Leads and excellent side parts, mainly Uwe Ochsenknecht (35 years removed from the Boat) as a beauty surgeon and Ulrike Kriener as a progressive teacher gone wild. Enjoy it for what it is and take away to think on your terms about what the refugee crisis means. My Wife ? Spot her in the Meeting Room in Shanghai (actually Munich BMW World) as a Chinese M&A Lawyer.

I rated this one quite high and above current average. And this is because all that was intended here, was light heart escapist entertainment, no depth, no message beyond and above. Heinz Erhard was the German Comedian of a perfect kind, H.J. Kulenkampff the (later) lead Saturday Night Show Lead and Walter Giller, still very young, the light hearted bachelor. The story is easy, 3 guys of different kind get together on the Rhine, travel from South East Germany via Switzerland to Netherlands along beautiful landscape and with light intervention from the ladies, be they wives, possessive Girlfriend or surprised hands on freighter girl. Light Story, easy touch, well played --> going to 8.

If released today, this movie would easily earn the prize for gender related political incorrectness. Hardly ever is machismo presented without any camouflage or adjustment in an present day environment, which it was 40 years ago.I think only the Duke could pull this off without the slightest allure of tongue in cheek. But once you get over this or accept it as the value proposition of the movie, you can quite like it as the adventure flick it really is. Using Red Adair as the role model, John Wayne and Jim Hutton travel the world to extinguish oil well fires with maximum effect, Vera Miles and Katherine Ross follow in their tow as beautiful decorative effects and i like it, also i could never confess this in the open w/o being cited out, see above. Make your own judgment and think about how much times have changed in the movies and beyond.

I recall to have seen this movie when i was a maybe 15 years old and mainly recalled the grim and bitter search for the U-Boat in the Murmansk Convoy Section. Much time has passed and Amazon Germany does now feature this in the Forgotten War Movie Section !. Certainly a film that must not be forgotten ! At the same time German TV featured a 30 year anniversary of "The Boat U-96" with the key actors. The Cruel Sea now is moving towards 60 years coming since it was released and it did not lose much. It is grim, based on obvious real life experience and well cast. Even Stanley Baker impresses as the Snorker Bully with an ulcer. Get it when you can.

I was 10 years old when this originally aired almost 40 years ago and i always loved it. This is still one of the finest hours of German (public) TV with a great script (discard the confusions about the mix of stories, i felt that it added something to the core Seawolf Story) and a strong direction. I had the chance to see it again several times and it doesn't have lost anything. None of actors came to any great fame, even R. Harmstorff remained in the shadow of his role until his death, but sometimes the whole is truly more then the sum of its parts. Wolfgang Staudte deserves special praise. It compares well even with todays best provided from HBO.

I had initially expected to find mainly German comments and felt positively surprised that a lot people commented positively also on the things around culminating in positive reviews about Worldcup in Germany 2006. Why do i like the movie ? Whenever you ask older people about what defined "West Germany" after the lost war, there are basically three things mentioned: The Currency Reform to "Deutschmark", the Return of the 10.000 POW from Russia and the Miracle of Bern as the leading one. And the movie, as good as i can imagine it, captured it very well if you hear comments from the same people watching. Yes, there are no mountains between Essen and Bern and quite sure no Car Transport Trains between Suisse and Germany in 54, but who cares ? But they did poke some fun about women's equal (baby naming) rights and the real copyrights for the German National Coaches high quality punch lines and they had the final about right. I can always enjoy it !

You have to scan German regional public TV stations carefully to capture one of the occasional replays of this wonderful TV event about the greatest British train robbery that ever was. Again a very German view on British events (we can not only beat them to pieces in the soccer ground !)from Germany with a very German British style (trenchcoats, pubs, inserts from Piccadilly square and greyhound race tracks, even correct left side driving) with the most German actors you can think or and a not so unnerving voice over commenting. Why only a 7: Because the score is basically unnerving "dong dong dong dong do dong dong dong....". Bert Kaempfert could have given them something much better, had they only asked. But if you can get it, don't miss it.

I recall to have seen this years ago and it was quite depressing. 3 Navy sailors are picked up by a submarine after their cruiser (ref to Battleship Bismarck ?) was sunk by the British in the Atlantic. They are the only survivors coming back and at first celebrated, then they fall victim to a fanatic and detail prone Court Martial Attorney who finds out, that they abandoned ship before (if ever) the order to abandon ship was given officially, constituting the fact of desertion from quarters, an act punishable with death. That the ship was already hopelessly shot up, communication severed and nothing left to fight with doesn't matter. Don't know in who's reel cellar it is now, but would like to see it again.

The first series of replays of the German Edgar Wallace i did see as a child and i have loved it ever since (at least the top items, where this one and "Der Zinker" are top notch. Very much German style British made, this is always still suspense, thrill, charming ladies and light entertainment perfectly combined. And we all know things will end well as they must in 60s movies in Germany of this Wirtschaftswunder era. It is reliably replayed in Germany in series by the multiple stations, where the reels seem to be rotate around, don't miss it if you can get it (forgo the latter, especially the colored ones. What was won in color was more then lost in suspense and coolness).

Hi all, my header line is not referring to seeing this again after 20 years, much more to seeing William Petersen now and then on the same day in CSI and in TLADIL within 2 hours. Being the early proponent of the MTV generation, fearless, fast, thoughtless and with short attention span and no idea why thinking ahead and planning should provide anything in the early movie vs being the center of wisdom and seniority in CSI is probably the sharpest contrast you can think about. But maybe same happened to me (hopefully should i say) being in similar age brackets. The story moves fast, driven by a then not annoying electric music score, offering twist and turns galore, sex, drama, Mr. Dafoe as desperate artist burning his own pictures vs. Mr. Master Counterfeiter. Also still worth it after 20 years wherever you get it.

Hi, i am just writing this comment to be #1001 commenting here. I need to check out, whether other top 25 titles got a similar high number of comments later. I didn't know what the movie was about when first watching, but it is hard not to like it and be fascinated. And even after knowing the twist, i can easily watch it again and try to find the twists and turns, that should have made me aware of the real story and the real identities. I will not disclose anything here, as you should simply watch yourself, listen, look and learn. Stay away from trivia and goofs until you have gone thru the full movie twice. A very good test whether you can keep focus and intensity beyond the duration of the normal You Tube video.

There is only so much you can do on an (no advertising) Emirates 6hrs flight, so i fell upon this movie completely unaware of it and its true content. I didn't know much about Brian Clough before other then being the manager of two times European Champion Nottingham Forest end of the seventies, but this was truly a fascinating movie on a versatile, to say the least, character. It seems, that after the departure of J. Mourinho, you don't have this types anymore in English football, at least at the top with business guys like Ferguson, Ancelotti, Wenger and Benitez. I was truly fascinated with the movie, the key characters and their development. The goof section for this movie shows, that not too much of the facts of the movie or the source book are really confirmed, but even the more entertaining. You may need to be a fan of football (soccer) to love it, or you may take it as a fascinating character study of somebody with high potential in his job, but also high potential for self destruction.

I must confess, that i am a real fan of CSI, since it aired in Germany and even bought the original DVDs to watch with captions for the hearing impaired to see all the wonderful terms like the blunt forced trauma and more. This episode again has special implications, what looks like a terror attack on an Air Marshal ends up as a .... Gil Grissom as dominating as he was in the early seasons unties the story in his regular manner. And everything works out with the inherent logic, that CSI has made a favorite for me, my all time favorite being "Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas". But that is another story.

Have fun.

This movie, which i revisited on German and English DVD yesterday is definitely more in the B Movie of the Sub Marine Genre. They could have learned from watching Destination Tokyo more closely, as this was with all its limitations still a fine movie and much less a strange flag waver whilst closer to the actual war time. Ward Bond and John Wayne still look like somebody stole their horses and don't know where to go, the submarine is spacious as an Ikea show room and the stress level when depth charged more like a tenant being annoyed with next door noise when watching Super Bowl. What did work quite good was the Wayne - Neal relationship, which you will see much more developed and mature in Harm's Way about 20 years later. Not urgent to watch.

The Events around the Battle of the River Plate have always been somewhat special next to the sinking of the Bismarck for me, as Germany does not have such a rich history of sea battles as England does. Two things stand out : First the very positive display of the Captain of the Graf Spee, Langsdorff, treating his prisoners positively and trying to kill ships but not humans and even saving his crew from heroic death in Battle by sinking the ship by himself and refusing to go into battle. And his tragic end by suicide. Second, the laconic display of the British Officers and Men in Battle. This is where my title quote is coming from, as a message issued by the Captain of the shut-down and burning Exeter trying to escape to safety after the Battle and heavy hits. Otherwise it seems to be a rather careful display of events, although the scenes in Montevideo are sometimes play out like a prelude to a Carry On Farce. Greatest weakness is, that we totally loose sight of the German views and events on board Graf Spee once the battle has started. Totally 6 of 10

I stumbled over this practically in Pakistan (F7 Supermarket Radio City Music Hall) when guessing about the meaning of the title, as no proper picture on the VHS box was attached. It remains one of my top favorite movies ever since, now that i own in in German and English at the same time. Most impressive are certainly Dean Jagger, who has taken the B17 Squad as his case in the war and fights for it and Gregory Peck, who somehow has always been at his best when playing people heavenly burdened with a seemingly unsurmountable task or the shadows of his past (compare The Gunfighter, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Moby Dick, Guns of Navarrone)and excels here as the commander who stumbles into the same trap as his friend, whom is relieved from the same post at his recommendation and replaces him soon after. The usage of stock footage is once done very carefully and fittingly and adds value to the movie (not only subtracts costs). 9/10 for being impressive, human and meaningful beyond documenting history.

I met this movie again after having seen it possibly more then 20 years ago now on DVD and in original English version. From the very start when 3 medics take maximum effort to analyze a piece of cabbage fished from the sea to the very end a highly claustrophobic atmosphere is created dominated by the Ahab-like Captain subordinating everything under his cold professionalism and determination to fight his cold war to the maximum heat allowed. The chase of the submarine certainly has many similar aspects of the chase for Moby Dick up to the awful end. Towering performances by Eric Portman, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, strong support by Martin Balsam, Wally Cox and James Mcarthur. 9/10.

The submarine movie as a sub species of the war movie is certainly something special as a category, for the exception of "Torpedo Run" i can not recall real bad movies of this kind. Das Boot is certainly the #1 in the race, with "Run Silent, run deep" and "The enemy below" following with some distance. Why is that ? Realism, Realism, Realism. The guys are really young, as they were in WW II. People would be wrecks mentally as well as physically after some time and having veterans like Clark Gable or Curd Jürgens on board was simply not possible. And the subs in other movies, like the 2 before mentioned were so relatively clean and nice as they never were. The simple effect of permanent water flow and the closed room situation took care of that. All in all, an overwhelming movie, much helped by the fact, that the actors were kept in and close during filming, that they would like the ghosts they would be after weeks on Sea.

As somebody rightfully remarked under Trivia, the German version runs the whole thing as a Drug Enforcement Story with J. Wayne and J. Arness following the trail of the drug ring to Hawaii. It is quite perplexing to see, that the whole story could be so easily streamed to a complete different thing with proper dubbing and off screen comment by the Duke. Just as perplexing is it, that something like this could be produced and distributed and carry such an a priori moralic attitude of the Government being right and the methods used as well, even if some basic laws need to be bended or broken along the way. That stuff is not worth more then 4/10.

I actually liked Gettysburg, which was done before, even if historically later, quit a bit and so i was quite eager to get my hands on the GaG DVD. However, after sitting thru the 2 discs and 4 hrs, i was left ambiguous. As nice as it is to see, that all the historical figures had a private life, had difficult decisions to make leaning towards either South or North, the thing is simply overloaded with this kind of things. And the proper display of the battles and their development sometimes falls short due to that. Best actors once more are Jeff Daniels in very "meaty" role, Robert Duvall as the better of the 2 R.E. Lees compared to M. Sheen and Stephen Lang, who is definitely upgraded from Pickett to Stonewall Jackson.

This movie got me with its spectacular opening of a car crashing (which was reused in "Dead Men don't wear plaid" 40 years later. Looking deeper into it, it is a Hepburn Tracy partnership definitely on the darker side of things as it evolves around the dead politician, who was a hero in the public mind, but had a very sinister leaning towards fascism, that lead to his early death. The discovery of this basically makes up the film, with Hepburn as grieving(?) widow and Tracy as the reporter trying to uncover, what is first only a gut feeling. This whole thing is rather dark, with people rejecting to talk openly or trying to put away the truth. An interesting look on American susceptiveness towards totalitarian, if it is only dressed up as "good American".