Stars: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk
Best Quote: Castle Keep is an ambitious oddity, as though a marriage had been arranged between Catch 22 and A Long Day's Dying, and neither party felt much confidence in the outcome..its so hit or miss that one wonders if they could see the target for the pretensions - The Spectator
A 1969 Box office dud, and almost completely forgotten, I found Castle Keep dull and bizarre. I'm a fan of WW 2 movies - but not of surrealism - and this is *feeble* surrealism. I didn't enjoy plowing through this plot-less, badly directed, badly written mess, trying to find a "deep" symbolic meaning, or the occasional witty line. Maybe they should have hired Luis Bunuel - instead of Sidney Pollack.
Side Note: Its astounding that The Quiet Man was turned down by every major studio, Welles' Chimes at Midnight had to be self-financed, and Heston spent years getting a studio to do the The Warlord. Yet this turkey was green-lighted by Columbia for $8 million. Its says a lot about Hollywood.
Burt Lancaster
Burt plays a 56 y/o Army Major with an eye-patch. And when he wears a helmet you can barely see his face. It must have been an easy paycheck.
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