Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
Nine Hours to Rama is the countdown before the tragic assassination of Gandhi. First of all, why would anyone want to make a movie about that? Secondly, if someone is going to make a movie about that, why would the assassin himself be the protagonist? Isn’t it strange to try and “root for” the bad guy when he’s this bad?
If you do watch this movie, you should know it’s not as advertised. It’s not a tense thriller with a nail-biting clock counting down the time of the assassination. It’s not about Gandhi. It’s not a cat-and-mouse relationship between the detective and the assassin. It’s a series of flashbacks about why Horst Buchholz’s character is so incredibly angry, and how mean and callous he treats the women in his life. He happens to be planning an assassination of Gandhi before sundown that day, but that almost feels incidental.
Horst really is a wonderful actor, though. He has an incredible magnetism and intense energy that makes it impossible to look away when he’s on the screen. It’s a shame he got typecast as a bad boy, and an even greater shame that he got roped into this movie. How can you bounce back from playing the guy who killed Gandhi? But perhaps the greatest shame of all is seeing the once magnificent José Ferrer beaten down and tired, depressed and without his energy and pizazz. To see him in this movie, you’d never guess he had a Rag Award and four additional nominations under his belt.
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More José Ferrer movies here!
If you do watch this movie, you should know it’s not as advertised. It’s not a tense thriller with a nail-biting clock counting down the time of the assassination. It’s not about Gandhi. It’s not a cat-and-mouse relationship between the detective and the assassin. It’s a series of flashbacks about why Horst Buchholz’s character is so incredibly angry, and how mean and callous he treats the women in his life. He happens to be planning an assassination of Gandhi before sundown that day, but that almost feels incidental.
Horst really is a wonderful actor, though. He has an incredible magnetism and intense energy that makes it impossible to look away when he’s on the screen. It’s a shame he got typecast as a bad boy, and an even greater shame that he got roped into this movie. How can you bounce back from playing the guy who killed Gandhi? But perhaps the greatest shame of all is seeing the once magnificent José Ferrer beaten down and tired, depressed and without his energy and pizazz. To see him in this movie, you’d never guess he had a Rag Award and four additional nominations under his belt.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Jack" for posting!
More José Ferrer movies here!