A strong candidate for greatest war movie.

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2019)

Well at least you could say (at least) one of the very best anti-war movies. The cast is super strong and brilliant at times; although the great Mason and Warner are not entirely believable. Still loving the message and it was the very first war movie to actually deal with the brutal Eastern Front, which in reality was around 85% of W.W.2. By the time the allies had landed on the beaches, the war had already been long lost, for Nazi Germany. The 'Cross of Iron' concerns the beginning of the end. Coburn and Schell are magnifico and the poster is a work of art to. This was the very last Sam Peckinpah, classic picture.