Rent Rogue Male (1976)
3.4 of 5 from 87 ratings
1h 43min
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- Synopsis:
- In early 1939 with war looming, English aristocrat Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) embarks on a 'sporting stalk' of the deadliest of prey: Adolf Hitler. Captured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert soon becomes the hunted on a chase from the Bavarian mountains to the wilds of the English countryside, where he will need all his sportsman's wit and guile to survive.
- Actors:
- John Standing, Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Michael Byrne, Mark McManus, Ray Smith, Hugh Manning, Robert Lang, Cyd Hayman, Ian East, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Ball, Maureen Lipman, Ray Mort, Michael Sheard, Shirley Dynevor, Ivor Roberts, Julia Chambers, Jean Rimmer
- Directors:
- Clive Donner
- Producers:
- Mark Shivas
- Writers:
- Frederic Raphael, Geoffrey Household
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- What to Watch Next If You Liked Scrooge
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/01/2019
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The Guardian Lecture: Frederic Raphael (1982, 72 mins, audio only): recorded at the NFT following a screening of Rogue Male
- Frederic Raphael remembers Rogue Male (2014, 4 mins): the screenwriter on how he came to the project and working with Harold Pinter
- Clive Donner on Rogue Male (2018, 14 mins): extracts from the director's recording for the British Entertainment History Project, played over a stills gallery
- Eva Braun Home Movies (c1939, 7 mins): footage of Hitler and Braun entertaining guests on the terrace of the Berghof
- British Union of Fascists march, October 3rd 1937 (1937, 10 mins)
- 200 Packs of Fox Hounds Begin Season's Sport (1921, 1 min): newsreel item on the opening of a Dorset hunt
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Reviews (2) of Rogue Male
Interesting Film - Rogue Male review by RC
I have been looking around for this film for some time. I vaguely remember the Fritz Lang treatment of the book from 1941 but this is a BBC production from 1976. Well filmed although it has a TV level production standard with a solid cast of well known British actors from the time including Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Ray Mort, Mark McManus, John Standing, & Maureen Lipman. Peter O'Toole carries off the lead well as the aristocratic hunter turned hunted, however the DVD extras says how ill he had been and its shows a little. It is perhaps not a thrill a minute stuff as in the 39 steps but is watchable all the same. O'Toole actually says this film is his favourite of all that he starred in.
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Not Rogue Enough - Rogue Male review by JJ
I read the novel many years ago and was interested enough by the cast (never heard of the director) to give it a spin this afternoon. It's not bad, but the presence of so many British TV faces of the '70s and visibly low budget make its origins as a BBC TV play pretty obvious.
O'Toole is a good as a slow-witted English aristocrat and romantic who doesn't do the obvious thing with murderous Nazis on his tail and a fortune in cash in his pocket and bugger off to live quietly in Glasgow or Dublin or Philadelphia or somewhere but - after a series of comic mis-steps worthy of Carry On Escaping - digs a hole in the ground in which to live in Dorset hunting country. Well you would, wouldn't you?
Anyway, it was worth seeing once, just about.
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