I'll Show You Where the Iron Crosses Grow!

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2002)

Cross of Iron has to rank as one of the best war movies ever made. I rank it up there with All Quiet On The Western Front. The opening children's song with the beginning of the movie is very haunting, if not totally ironic, abstract and thought provoking.The story of a German platoon on the Eastern Front is very well done. The acting and the story are excellent. This is probably my favorite performance by James Coburn as Steiner a war-weary German Sergeant. The rest of the cast is excellent as well. There is brutality between the Russians and the Germans as well as to their own people. If you are going to rent a bunch of war movies Cross of Iron belong up there with Saving Private Ryan, Platoon and All Quiet On the Western Front. This movie is often unfortunately overlooked as a great war movie and it shouldn't. It is up there with the best of them and should be honored as such.It is an outstanding movie.