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...group of engineers, scientists and charlatans, headed by P. T. Barnum (Burl Ives), decides to shoot the moon with a rocket ship to be sent up by German Genius Gert Frobe. The pilot: blond, bland Troy Donahue, ideal candidate for the world's first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries...
...Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book, The End of Rasputin, is being filmed near the prince's home in Paris, with English Actor Peter McEnery giving the fatal mugging to Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe...
...material, cordoned off large areas of Paris while the cameras were rolling, and sponsored the U.S. premiere. The producers for their part contributed a big budget and a vast cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Tony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...
...inherent in the story: World War II, Paris, a good-guy Nazi (and quite a few bad-guy Nazis), underground intrigues, and a triumphant deliverance. Hitler has ordered Paris destroyed if it cannot be held--the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, all of it. Even disciplined portly General von Choltitz (Gert Forbe) balks at the task. Finally (because he comes to the conclusion that Hitler is mad) he betrays the city to the Allies and it's all over but the shouting. Producer Ray Stark could have made a documentary or he could have made a movie about von Choltitz...