Castle Keep

Castle Keep
Directed by	Sydney Pollack
Written by	Daniel Taradash David Rayfiel
Based on	Castle Keep (1965 novel) by William Eastlake
Produced by	John Calley Martin Ransohoff
Starring	Burt Lancaster Patrick O'Neal Jean-Pierre Aumont Bruce Dern Peter Falk
Narrated by	Al Freeman Jr.
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Edited by	Malcolm Cooke
Music by	Michel Legrand
Color process	Technicolor
Production companies	Filmways Pictures Avala Film
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	July 23, 1969 (1969-07-23)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	United States, Yugoslavia
Language	English
Budget	$8 million[1]
Box office	$1.8 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2]

Castle Keep is a 1969 American war comedy-drama film combining surrealism with tragic realism. It was directed by Sydney Pollack, and starred Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bruce Dern and Peter Falk. The film appeared in the summer of 1969, a few months before the premiere of Pollack's smash hit They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

The film is based on the novel of the same name by William Eastlake published in 1965, and according to New York Times critic Vincent Canby “accomplishes the dubious feat of being both anti and pro war at the same time”.^[3] Eastlake enlisted in the United States Army in 1942. He served in the Infantry for four and a half years, and was wounded while leading a platoon during the Battle of the Bulge.