Burt Lancaster Patrick O'Neal Jean-Pierre Aumont Bruce Dern Peter Falk
Narrated by
Al Freeman Jr.
Cinematography
Henri Decaë
Edited by
Malcolm Cooke
Music by
Michel Legrand
Color process
Technicolor
Production companies
Filmways Pictures Avala Film
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
July 23, 1969 (1969-07-23)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
United States, Yugoslavia
Language
English
Budget
$8 million[1]
Box office
$1.8 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2]
Castle Keep is a 1969 American war comedy-drama film combining surrealism with tragic realism. It was directed by Sydney Pollack, and starred Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bruce Dern and Peter Falk. The film appeared in the summer of 1969, a few months before the premiere of Pollack's smash hit They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The film is based on the novel of the same name by William Eastlake published in 1965, and according to New York Times critic Vincent Canby “accomplishes the dubious feat of being both anti and pro war at the same time”.[3] Eastlake enlisted in the United States Army in 1942. He served in the Infantry for four and a half years, and was wounded while leading a platoon during the Battle of the Bulge.
^Kate Buford, Burt Lancaster: An American Life, Da Capo 2000 p 249
^"Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
^Canby, Vincent (1969-07-24). "' Castle Keep' Firmly Pro and Anti War". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
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