John Wayne playing a WWI German ship’s captain in “The Sea Chase” (1955). While one of Hollywood’s truly greats, the Duke had a tin ear for accents and sounded just as believably German as he later sounded like a real Mongolian.
“Well, Auf, uh, wiedersehen, Fatherland. Don’t know when I’ll see ya again, pilgrim.”
But you gotta love the guy anyway. He was who he was.
I've always wondered about this one. Why do we expect an American actor playing a German to speak English in the movie with a German accent? Since he'd be speaking German rather than English, why does a fake German accent make it more believable?
Also what in the heck does a Mongolian accent sound like? Would you know a realistic one if you heard it?