Breakthrough

Breakthrough, WWII Movie starring Richard Burton

Breakthrough, WWII Movie starring Richard Burton

(1979) Yes, it’s a bad sign when I’m thinking “fast forward” in the first fifteen minutes of a movie. First of all Richard Burton is a German soldier. That just didn’t feel right.

I would rather watch a movie with subtitles than watch one with actors who are speaking with German accents that I just cannot understand.

And I’m thinking, how old is Richard Burton? He looks terrible. A quick google, and I see that he was 54. He had already divorced Elizabeth twice. I understand.

When Robert Mitchum, American Colonel, appears, “Thank goodness. At least I’ll know what he’s saying.”

The story is that German Burton is ordered to tell American Mitchum that there is a plot brewing to kill Hitler which will make it possible to negotiate a ceasefire.  As we all know, that plot fails.  The fighting intensifies.  The most interesting and exciting part of the movie was the ending.

If you can make it that long.

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