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Hollywood offered perhaps the most unlikely casting of a hero at the holidays — Tom Cruise playing a German army officer.-

Cruise, of course, enjoys All-American looks that helped send him to movie stardom playing heroic young men such as Lt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in 1986 movie, ‘Top Gun.’ As of late, he’s been on a mea culpa tour to explain his odd behaviour in recent years and to regain his good-guy image with fans.-

The improbable plot was a plan by German officers to kill Adolf Hitler by placing a bomb near him at a top secret meeting, and the resulting movie about that attempt is ‘Valkyrie,’ starring Cruise as Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg who was at the centre of the assassination attempt.-

“Stauffenberg was unique, handsome, and Tom had a lot of the same attributes, besides the physical looks of the character,” ‘Valkyrie’ director Bryan Singer said.-

When pictures comparing the likeness of a Stauffenberg to Cruise began making their way around the Web in 2007, concerns arose that Cruise’s squeaky clean public image would be further tarnished by playing a Nazi.-

But Singer looks differently at the film and at Cruise as von Stauffenberg.