Rogue Male (1976)

Directors

Clive Donner

Cast

Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter

The story

In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high status in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident, but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off of a cliff to disguise the signs.

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