The Odessa File (1974)

[akatemple]

The Odessa File (1974)
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Frederick Forsyth (novel), Kenneth Ross (screenplay)

1963, President Kennedy has just been assassinated, Egypt has missiles posed to annihilate Israel. Egypt is missing one part, the guidance system for the missiles. They turn to the Germans for the part they need. 

Peter Miller played by a very young Jon Voight (does he ever look young), is a freelance German journalist. Peter gets a journal that the police took after a man is killed. The man who was killed turns out to be a Jew that survived the Nazi concentration camps, his journal is filled with horrific about what happened to Jews in these camps, also in the journal are the names of Nazi officers that were behind all this violence. 

As Peter keeps digging deeper into the man who died and the names in the journal he uncovers a secret Nazi group still in existence called The Odessa. Peter must go under cover and try to gain access to this secret group so he can stop them and prevent the guidance systems from getting into the Egyptians hands.

This movie was really good, I have been avoiding watching this for a  long time and I don’t know why but I wish I had of watched this years  ago.  I was worried that this would be a slow moving film, and maybe it  was a bit but not enough to bother me in the slightest because I was  really caught up in the story.  I deffinatly suggest that anyone who  hasn’t seen this movie should give it a shot and give your own opinion.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071935/

[akatemple]

Yeah I agree, The Odessa File, Midnight Cowboy, and Deliverance are the only movies I really care for him in, none of his newer stuff that I can think of.

[marcie]

I saw this years ago on cable and I remember being very caught up in the situation Jon Voight found himself in and I was also amazed at his sweet baby face. I had "Midnight Cowboy" in my Q the second I joined netflix but do not believe the father of Angelina is really a great actor. He had great presence but seems to belong to the era of Vietnam (Coming Home) and civil rights issues and I do not really remember him well in the movies from his early days nor do any recent movies stand out.