well and if nothing else and we can agree that they do not make em like this any more . a cast of super prestigious actor and include a reunion of peter otoole and omar sharif from lawrence of arabia and be employ in a huge and unwieldy euro pudding of a production about nazi and murderer and a nazi murderer . this isn not an easy movie to summarize and since there be at least three major plot line go on at the same time . in one and someone be kill prostitute in occupied warsaw and paris and and omar think the murderer be one of three lead wehrmacht general . in the second plot and various high ranking officer be conspire to overthrow hitler and bring the war to an end . and in a third plot and tom courtenay corporal be get very close to the daughter of charles gray untrustworthy general gabler . all three plot intersect and sort of and but i can not help wish that someone have make up their mind just what sort of movie they want to make and stick with it and rather than try to make three at once . courtenay romantic sub plot be entirely redundant and and should have be cut out completely and thus shorten the movie to a manageable two hour or so . and be there really any need for christopher plummer to saunter on in a minuscule cameo a rommel . his appearance add nothing to the story and and the only reason for him be here at all be presumably in order to employ every great british actor alive at the time . i be only surprised that laurence olivier do not turn up a goebbels and or himmler or someone . and yet and despite the bloat and despite the stunt casting and despite the fact that philippe noiret be more wooden than the black forest and it work . i watch it for two and a half hour without get bore and and i love a lot of thing about it the character interact beautifully and the tension in the conspiracy sequence build up to near unbearable level and and the look of the thing be sumptuous in the extreme . you really feel youre there with these people and and you can not help but care about them and how the story come out . in the end and that what movie be suppose to do and isn not it . night of the general be a long way from perfect and but it just about force me to like it .