Schlachthof 5 (1972)

Schlachthof 5: Directed by George Roy Hill. With Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans. Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

“This is a very clever, thoughtful, well made movie. It succeeded in doing what I thought was nearly impossible, i.e. to put this amazing book on film. There are one or two small points that keep me from giving this picture anything higher than a 7, the main one being Ron Liebman playing the Paul Lazzaro role – highly irritating. Other than that, a brave and imaginative, clever, witty film that I would heartily recommend to anyone.”