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...Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968): A lurch at comedy. I didn't accomplish it very well...
...getting a studio that accounts for 151 hours a week of network TV's prime-time output (The Virginian, It Takes a Thief and Ironside) and has turned out some of Hollywood's most profitable full-length features (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Secret War of Harry Frigg). The biggest plums are the potential TV receipts from MCA's library of 1,954 feature films, including 700 Paramount features that Wasserman shrewdly bought up ten years ago, and the company's real estate properties, notably its $1 billion Universal City office-and-hotel development overlooking the bustling...
...SECRET WAR OF HARRY FRIGG. Paul Newman plays a buck private who is suddenly promoted to two-star general on a World War II assignment so far behind the lines that he almost comes out on the other side...
Breaking out begins to seem somewhat less urgent, however, when Major General Frigg meets the villa's owner, the young and widowed Contessa di Montefiore (Sylva Koscina), who lives in the gatehouse outside the wire. And when Frigg finds a secret passageway that leads from his bedroom directly into hers, it becomes clear to him that his generals will need weeks of preparation-calisthenics, Italian lessons, etc. -before an escape attempt is feasible...
...this point, as the comedy bogs down along with the escape plans, the Germans move in and transfer the group to a sadistic stalag, where Frigg has a real chance to strut his stuff. This leads, of course, to a bit of bang-bang, followed by a spot of kiss-kiss, and then it's time to wake...