Cross of Iron (1977)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 8 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Synopsis:
A very strong anti-war message film, set during World War II and told entirely from the German perspective. A German Army Sergeant doggedly struggles to keep his platoon intact while surviving the horrors of the Russian front in 1943. [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, Senta Berger, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Wolf C. Hartwig
Screenwriter: Julius J. Epstein
Composer: Ernest Gold
Producer: Wolf C. Hartwig
Screenwriter: Julius J. Epstein
Composer: Ernest Gold
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Its complex and vivid portrayal of the absurdity of war, however, prompted none other than Orson Welles to write Peckinpah and proclaim it the finest antiwar film he had ever seen.
08/30/06 03:18 PM
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06/24/06 03:35 AM
Cross of Iron would almost seem a proper mea culpa by Peckinpah for his controversial career.
04/17/06 06:09 PM
Mr. Peckinpah's least interesting, least personal film in years, a hysterically elaborate, made-in-Yugoslavia war spectacle, the work of international financiers and a multinational cast.
05/09/05 03:15 AM
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05/24/03 08:13 AM
Peckinpah indulges in endless combat scenes (this was his only war movie), which try the patience of viewers who came for the real story.
02/27/03 08:31 AM
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