Review of The Odessa File (1974) by Familiar S — 15 Jul 2009

Rather lackluster espionage thriller based on Frederick Forsythe's 1972 bestseller, about a journalist on a mission to track down a former SS Commander in hiding, and finds himself up against a secret organization, the Odessa, made up of Nazi's in hiding who plan on obliterating the State of Israel with several missiles.

Nothing special here. Dull script. Mundane direction from the usually reliable Ronald Neame (though he himself admits he wasn't too proud of the film either), and a terrible score from Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose own bloated musical Evita celebrated the life of Eva Peron as well as husband Juan Peron, President of Argentina and a well-know Nazi sympathizer who allowed former Nazi's a safe haven in his country. How is that for some absolutely disgusting irony.