Synopsis
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
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Cast
- Anthony QuinnThe Basque
- James MasonProfessor Bergson
- Malcolm McDowellCapt. Von Berkow
- Patricia NealMrs. Bergson
- Kay LenzLeah Bergson
- Paul ClemensPaul Bergson
- Christopher LeeGypsy
- Michael LonsdaleRenoudot
- Robert RhysGypsy Son
- Marcel BozzuffiPerea
Recommandations
- 37
Washington Post
The director, J. Lee Thompson, was once a proficient craftsman. Not all that long ago he and Quinn were associated on the prestigious hit The Guns of Navarone. You can't help wondering what they, along with Mason and Neal, talked about between the takes of this howler. [29 Mar 1979, p.D15] - 30
The New York Times
The performances are very, very bad, and the mountains boring. - 30
Time Out
McDowell's comically histrionic performance is, in fact, the single redeeming feature in this lamentably simplistic and unpleasant piffle. - 30
TV Guide Magazine
The script is a jumbled bag of war-movie cliches, and hack director J. Lee Thompson--who surpassed himself precisely once, with Cape Fear--is on auto-pilot throughout. - 30
Newsweek
Director J. Lee Thompson has come a long, depressing way since the days of The Guns of Navarone: his film is sloppily edited, murkily photographed and shot through with a mean streak of sadism unredeemed by its clumsy camp value. [12 Mar 1979, p.89] - 25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The Family is running from The Hun (Malcolm McDowell). The Family is not running as fast as I would like to have run from The Passage. [29 Mar 1979]
