Interesting. Although Leif Erickson was from Alameda CA and his birth name was William Wycliffe Anderson!
I remember Jean-Pierre Aumont played The Captain somewhere, no?
I guess the Captain is a role like Emile de Becque in that as long as he is ethnic- doesn't matter what ethnicity- it'll work?
Plummer was terrific casting, given that his mien seems more like the average Nazi commandant, which gives his revulsion at Nazism a bit more surprising and dramatic. |
