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Cross Of Iron [1977]
 
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Cross Of Iron [1977]
VHS ~ James Coburn
4.4 out of 5 stars  (30 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch
  • Directors: Sam Peckinpah
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English, French, Russian
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 5 Jul 1999
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CILT
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,048 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #26 in  Video > Classic Films > Actors > Mason, James

Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
In Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah weighs in on World War II from the German point of view. The result is as bleak, if not quite as bloody, as one expects from the director of The Wild Bunch, in part because this 1977 film was cut to ribbons by nervous studio executives. The assorted excerpts that remain don't constitute an exhilarating or even an especially thrilling battle epic. The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like James Coburn's Steiner are grimly aware that it's a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals (viz., the martinet played by James Mason) seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiner's men than the inexorable enemy. Not even Peckinpah's famous sensuous exuberance when shooting violence is much in evidence; the picture is a depressive, claustrophobically overcast experience. The bloody high (or low) point isn't a shooting; it's a wince-inducing de-penis-tration during oral sex. For a fun time with the men in (Nazi) uniform, try Das Boot instead. --David Chute, Amazon.com

Synopsis
A story which explores the conflicts of personality among the officers and men of a doomed German Army unit facing destruction by the Russians in 1943.

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