Hart the Heel instead of Hart the Hero

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2002)

I just saw the movie. It was alright but it did not have the "power" or the "emotion" of the book. Hart is made out to be the heel in this movie. Even Scott's "look" at him at the end says it all - "heel". In the book he is the hero that saves the life of Lt. Scott and kills an SS officer that bites off a few digits during the escape. This marking identifies Hart to the widow of Scott after many years later where the story had become legend in Scott's family. Sticking to the book would have made a movie that could have been "best picture", but this one is not.