Cross of Iron (1977)
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner
Synopsis:
On the Eastern Front in World War Two the Russian partisans close in on the Wehrmacht, while Sergeant Steiner attempts to keep his men alive against the treachery of his superior officer.
Review:
Peckinpah's one war film has points in common with Major Dundee, but it is not hard to see Schell's Stransky as a direct descendant of Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, and other corrupt figures of authority in his oeuvre. Like both the above-named, it was a bit chewed about by the distributor, and it shows in the ending, and elsewhere it is frankly a bit of a mess. However, admirers of the director will find much by which to recognise him here, not least a scene where a German soldier attempting to force a partisan woman to perform oral sex gets more than he bargained for.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner
Synopsis:
On the Eastern Front in World War Two the Russian partisans close in on the Wehrmacht, while Sergeant Steiner attempts to keep his men alive against the treachery of his superior officer.
Review:
Peckinpah's one war film has points in common with Major Dundee, but it is not hard to see Schell's Stransky as a direct descendant of Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, and other corrupt figures of authority in his oeuvre. Like both the above-named, it was a bit chewed about by the distributor, and it shows in the ending, and elsewhere it is frankly a bit of a mess. However, admirers of the director will find much by which to recognise him here, not least a scene where a German soldier attempting to force a partisan woman to perform oral sex gets more than he bargained for.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 133m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner
Synopsis:
On the Eastern Front in World War Two the Russian partisans close in on the Wehrmacht, while Sergeant Steiner attempts to keep his men alive against the treachery of his superior officer.
Review:
Peckinpah's one war film has points in common with Major Dundee, but it is not hard to see Schell's Stransky as a direct descendant of Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, and other corrupt figures of authority in his oeuvre. Like both the above-named, it was a bit chewed about by the distributor, and it shows in the ending, and elsewhere it is frankly a bit of a mess. However, admirers of the director will find much by which to recognise him here, not least a scene where a German soldier attempting to force a partisan woman to perform oral sex gets more than he bargained for.