Rogue Male
1976 | 103m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Clive Donner |
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| Writer: | Frederic Raphael, Geoffrey Household |
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| In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 22, 1976 |
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| Director: | Clive Donner |
| Writer: | Frederic Raphael, Geoffrey Household |
| Genres: | Drama, War, TV Movie |
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| Production Companies | BBC |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Peter O'Toole | Sir Robert Thorndyke |
| John Standing | Major Quive-Smith |
| Alastair Sim | The Earl |
| Harold Pinter | Saul Abrahams |
| Michael Byrne | Interrogator |
| Mark McManus | Vaner |
| Ray Smith | Fisherman |
| Hugh Manning | Peale |
| Robert Lang | Jessel |
| Cyd Hayman | Rebecca |
| Ian East | Muller |
| Maureen Lipman | Freda |
| Ray Mort | Gerald |
| Philip Jackson | 1st Seaman |
| Nicholas Ball | 2nd Seaman |
| Michael Sheard | Adolf Hitler |
| Henry Woolf | Ticket Office Clerk |
| Ron Pember | Ticket Collector |
| Richardson Morgan | Ticket Collector |
| Dennis Chinnery | Tube Passenger |
| Pat Gorman | Gestapo |
| John Ringham | German Policeman |
| Declan Mulholland | Cook |
| Denys Hawthorne | Assassin |
| Shirley Dynevor | Eva Braun |
| Ivor Roberts | Mr Drake |
| Jean Rimmer | Postmistress |
| Julia Chambers | Daughter |
| George Selway | Captain |
| Trevor Ray | Golf Clubber |
| David Webb | Pork Pie |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Clive Donner | Director |
| Frederic Raphael | Writer |
| Christopher Gunning | Original Music Composer |
| Geoffrey Household | Novel |
| Dan Rae | Editor |
| John Bloomfield | Costume Design |
| Brian Tufano | Director of Photography |
| Tony Abbott | Production Design |
| Shirley Boakes | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mark Shivas | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Trending Position
Based on Geoffrey Household's rather far-fetched book, Peter O'Toole is British aristocrat "Sir Robert" who lays plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler before the start of WWII. After missing an open goal his plan goes awry, and after some fairly brutal torture at the hands of his captor Michael Byrne, he ... manages to flee the scene of his own proposed demise and to make it back to Blighty where his solicitor and kindly uncle (Alastair Sim) recommends he keep his head down for fear his plot be publicised, and the country be dragged into war...! The Nazis have not, however, given up on their chase and his efforts to stay out of their sights quite literally drive him underground. It is all just a bit silly, to be honest, and the sort of stiff-upper-lip gentlemanly code of hunter and hunted borders a little too much on the sarcastic to be scary and not enough to be amusing - even though O'Toole does have some quite pithy put downs for his Aryan pursuers. It is just about worth watching for fans of the star, but the rest of it need not have been remade from the superior 1941 iteration.