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Writing in The New York Times, Roger Greenspun called Waterloo "a very bad movie," citing Bondarchuk's "obsessive" directing and Steiger's overacting: Steiger plays a peace-loving Napoleon, crafty, tired, much weighted with the destiny he seems never to get off his mind.
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy [1] (1 May 1919 – 17 February 2005) was an Irish [2] actor of film, television and radio. [3] O'Herlihy's best-known roles included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of the lead character in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), [4] Brigadier General Warren A. Black in Fail Safe (1964), Marshal Ney in Waterloo (1970), Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch ...
Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (pronounced [miʃɛl nɛ]; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
I visited the Waterloo battlefield two years ago. The film shows Napoleon storming off in a huff in the mid-afternoon to lament how his genius is deserting him etc etc, leaving Ney to launch his ill-judged cavalry charges against the British squares.
The Execution of Marshal Ney (French: L'exécution du maréchal Ney) is an 1868 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.It depicts the French Marshal Michel Ney immediately after his execution on 7 December 1815, with the firing squad seen marching away from the site.
The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras [a] and was contested between elements of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of Napoleon Bonaparte's French Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney.
Escaping from Elba, Napoleon encounters the 5th Regiment and Ney and convinces them over to his side, even reconciliation with Ney. The Hundred Days culminates with the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, and the defeat of the imperial forces. Napoleon is exiled to the island of Saint Helena, where his only friend and confidante is a young English girl ...
Waterloo: 1970 Napoleon Bonaparte: Sergei Bondarchuk [51] Bridge from No Place: 1971 Unseen Narrator William Templeton: 23-minute anti-drug documentary [52] Duck, You Sucker! 1971 Juan Miranda Sergio Leone [53] Happy Birthday, Wanda June: 1971 Harold Ryan Mark Robson [54] Lolly-Madonna XXX: 1973 Laban Feather Richard C. Sarafian [55] The Heroes ...