Kenneth Ross


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Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) People Burning Like Torches Jon Voight as reporter Miller, with his girlfriend (Mary Tamm) in Hamburg, 1963, visiting his German mother (Maria Schell, only 12 years Voight's senior) as he considers investigating leads left by a now-deceased Holocaust survivor, Hans Wyprächtiger his landlord, in Ronald Neame's The Odessa File, 1974.
Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) An Old Man Gassed Himself Following a prologue of a plot to destroy Israel, and Hamburg, November 22, 1963 established in the credits, Jon Voight, narrating, appears as German reporter Miller, attention diverted by the Kennedy assassination, pursuing a maybe-routine event, in the espionage thriller The Odessa File, 1974, from the Frederick Forsyth novel.
Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) They Can't Kill Us Off! Hamburg, 1963, Jon Voight as reporter Miller, early in his pursuit of a Nazi war criminal involved in a plot against Israel, is the uninvited guest at a reunion of a (real) Waffen SS unit, Georg Marischka, and Günter Meisner as General Greifer, among the celebrants, in The Odessa File, 1974.
Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Criminal At Large Jon Voight as (fictional) West German reporter Miller visiting Vienna, December, 1963 to see Shmuel Rodensky, playing the famous Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, discussing the (also real) Austrian SS war criminal Eduard Roschmann, in director Ronald Neame’s adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel The Odessa File, 1974.
Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) He Liked To Destroy Human Beings Jon Voight as German reporter Miller in Hamburg, 1963, reading the diary of German jew Tauber (Towje Kleiner) following his suicide, director Ronald Neame’s black & white scenes recreating the concentration camp at Riga, Latvia, dominated by Maximilian Schell as Nazi commandant Roschmann, in The Odessa File, 1974.
Breaker Morant -- (Movie Clip) There Was An Understanding In a British Court Martial during the Boer War, defense lawyer Thomas (Jack Thompson) questions Taylor (John Waters) about the role of Australian Lt. Morant (Edward Woodward) in the execution of prisoners, director Bruce Beresford recounting the event in flashback, in Breaker Morant, 1980.
Day Of The Jackal, The -- (Movie Clip) No French Soldier Following credits and the modest two-Citroen motorcade of President de Gaulle, assassins led by Bastien-Thiry (Jean Sorel) make their attempt, an historic event in Paris, 1962, opening Fred Zinnemann's The Day Of The Jackal, 1973.
Day Of The Jackal, The -- (Movie Clip) One Englishman Rodin (Eric Porter), leader of the secret OAS conspiracy, introduces colleagues (Dennis Carey, Jean Martin), to his chosen English assassin (Edward Fox, title character), in The Day Of The Jackal, 1973, directed by Fred Zinnemann from Frederick Forsyth's novel.
Day Of The Jackal, The -- (Movie Clip) Quanto Costa? Doing business at a Genoa street market, Edward Fox (title character) in a famous scene testing the rifle made for his attempt to kill the French president, with a special bullet, in The Day Of The Jackal, 1973, from Frederick Forsyth's novel.
Day Of The Jackal, The -- (Movie Clip) Over What Range? Edward Fox (title character) in Genoa, Italy, visits a reclusive English gunsmith (Cyril Cusack), seeking the weapon for his attempt to kill French President de Gaulle, in Fred Zinnemann's The Day Of The Jackal, 1973.
Day Of The Jackal, The -- (Movie Clip) Do Not Fail French police deputy commissioner Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) gets word that he's being called back into duty to catch an assassin hunting president de Gaulle, consulting with his boss (Timothy West) and assistant Caron (Derek Jacobi), in Fred Zinnemann's The Day Of The Jackal, 1973.
Breaker Morant -- (Movie Clip) Penalty Is Death Australian soldiers Morant (Edward Woodward), Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) meet inexperienced defense attorney Thomas (Jack Thompson), appointed by superiors determined to secure their conviction, in Breaker Morant, 1980.

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