Counterpoint
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ralph Nelson
Charlton Heston
Maximilian Schell
Kathryn Hays
Leslie Nielsen
Anton Diffring
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him. Evans refuses in order to barter for more time. The presence of two U. S. servicemen hiding among the orchestra members further endangers the group's safety. The two men try to escape during a rehearsal, and one is shot down and the other killed by a land mine. Evans finally consents to give Schiller his concert if he will release Annabelle Rice, the wife of first violinist Victor and Evans' former mistress, who has futilely attempted to bargain for the players' lives. As the performance nears its end, Schiller leaves and gives his aide, Colonel Arndt, permission to kill the musicians. Armed partisans attack the remaining Germans, however, and help most of the orchestra members to escape. Although Evans is left to face Arndt, his life is spared when Schiller returns and shoots Arndt.
Director
Ralph Nelson
Cast
Charlton Heston
Maximilian Schell
Kathryn Hays
Leslie Nielsen
Anton Diffring
Linden Chiles
Pete Masterson
Curt Lowens
Neva Patterson
Cyril Delevanti
Gregory Morton
Parley Baer
Dan Frazer
Ed Peck
Ralph Nelson
Crew
Carl Anderson
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Dick Berg
Johannes Brahms
Leo Damiani
Howard Epstein
Lawrence Foster
Dan Frazer
Larry Germain
Joseph Gershenson
William S. Gilmore Jr.
Alexander Golitzen
David A. Hammond
D. R. O. Hatswell
Bronislaw Kaper
James Lee
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
John Mccarthy Jr.
Russell Metty
Burton Miller
George Milo
Joel Oliansky
William Russell
Franz Peter Schubert
Pëtr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Universal Title
Richard Wagner
Waldon O. Watson
Bud Westmore
Albert Whitlock
Wallace Worsley
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film is The Battle Hours.
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