Michael Caine labelled 1971 basic as ‘the most disappointing film I ever made’ | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Michael Caine has an unimaginable again catalogue of movies to be pleased with from throughout the a long time.

But there may be one which left him feeling severely dissatisfied as a result of response it acquired.

The film in query is 1971’s The Last Valley wherein Caine stars as a mercenary chief through the Thirty Years’ War of the seventeenth century.

Based on the novel of the identical title, the appearing legend’s Captain and Omar Sharif’s trainer uncover a German valley untouched by the battle, as they collaborate to protect peace and concord there.

In his authorised biography 70 not out, Caine lamented The Last Valley as “the most disappointing picture I ever made. Disappointing not from the finished picture, but the reaction to it. It is a performance of which I’m particularly proud, one of the best performances I ever gave, as a matter of fact. For a start, it was anti-religious war at the time of Northern Ireland. I did the film to show what I felt about all the religions. But it meant absolutely nothing to the public, the critics were extremely unkind, and it was a terrible thing for me because everybody was sure it would be a big hit — and so was I.”