Cruise criticised by colonel's family

Tom Cruise was "too small" to play Claus Von Stauffenberg in new movie 'Valkyrie', according to a relative of the would-be assassin.

Cruise criticised by colonel's family

Tom Cruise was "too small" to play Claus Von Stauffenberg in new movie 'Valkyrie', according to a relative of the would-be assassin.

The film tells the story of von Stauffenberg's plot to murder Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II, with Cruise taking the lead role, prompting criticism from some of the history-making colonel's children that the casting wasn't realistic.

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