Um, I spy a typo, besides that this is a great movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2006)

How're ya'll? (that's how we start slightly uncomfortable topics in Arkansas) In your "Credited Cast" listing the actors and characters for James Coburn and Maximillian Schell (Steiner and Stransky) are reversed - Coburn played Steiner and Schell played Stransky.
Beyond that, this is an absolutely fantastic movie - if you believe the way to defeat one's enemy (in this case WAR in general) you must first know your enemy, I highly recommend you study this film before contacting your congressperson. In my mind it is a direct precursor to later WWII masterpieces such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Thin Red Line" while surpassing other films done at about the same time - "A Bridge Too Far" and "Midway." By not being a history of a specific battle with specific historical characters and a rigidly known time-line, it is freed to dwell within the condition of warfare and focus on the experience of the men and women alone.
Peckinpah's unflinching vision and poetic understanding of violence coupled with the masterful involvement of the multinational cast and Gold & Thomas musical score combine to create an experience that will certainly haunt you.