A flawed classic

Rating: Null/10 (2 October 2005)

Excellent casting and some fine performances. But the editing is probably the film's greatest flaw, especially early on in shifting from the French squadron to the German squadron; no transitions at all. Just plain amateurish: a grade school student with a film splicer could have done as well. Those easily avoidable flaws reduce my rating to a 7.
GOOF: why oh why does the floral wreath to a fallen French flier have the date "March 12, 1914." The film is set in 1916, but the wreath's date was five months before the war began!
GOOF: Stroheim made the greatest pistol shot in movie history: a moving man, in the dark, at 150 meters. But the French victim indicates he's hit in the forearm--certainly not a fatal wound.