Cross of Iron

James Hamilton had one achievement that stood out on his resume: He was a screenwriter on the 1977 Sam Peckinpah movie "Cross of Iron." It was good for a lot of stories, but only one part of the longtime Mill Valley resident's...

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...depleted infantry platoon during the 1943 German retreat from the Taman Peninsula in the Caucasian coast of Russia. The war film, Cross of Iron (1977), directed by Sam Peckinpah, is based upon this novel. Later editions of The Willing Flesh...

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...that makes you wince. But you can't say it's gratuitous: think of the film as a hybrid between 'Allo 'Allo! and Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, and you know what to expect. For all its prolix shapelessness, Inglourious Basterds displays a...

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...228th Jager Regiment of the 101st Jager Division, the infantry unit of the characters of Das Geduldige Fleisch (The Willing Flesh; Cross of Iron), his most famous novel. In the war's course, the 101st Jager Division suffered seven hundred...

In this article: Willi Heinrich, The Willing Flesh, Eastern Front, Second World War, Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn, and Baden-Wurttemberg

...(1979) co-written with Peter Bernies starred Richard Burton and Rod Steiger. The film came heavily indebted to Sam Peckinpah's classic 'Cross of Iron'. After heart surgery in 1980, Williamson deliberately slowed his output. However, he was...

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Breakthrough is a 1979 war film set on the Western Front . It is a sequel to Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, and borrows several characters from that film. The film starred several big names including Richard Burton and Rod Steiger. Richard...

In this article: Breakthrough, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Eastern Front, and German Army

...just in time. The late James Coburn had stories about Peckinpah collapsing drunkenly on the street in London during the editing of Cross of Iron, uncertain even which city he was in. His old editor Monte Hellman once told me that when...

In this article: Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch, Susan George, Ride the High Country, William Holden, Warren Oates, and Joel McCrea

...out of control once the alcohol and drugs took a firm and fatal grip. His subsequent films after Alfredo lack energy, anger, and love. Cross of Iron (1977) is a stiff melodrama about the absurdity of war, but it does little apart from...

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...in 2002. It is a cinematic treasure trove with such classics as "It's a Wonderful Life" (1947), "High Noon" (1952) and Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron" (1976) alongside films from the '80s and '90s, including David Fincher's "Fight Club"...

In this article: High Noon, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rio Grande, It's a Wonderful Life, Fight Club, Soenke Wortmann, Sam Peckinpah, and John Ford

...young man lured into decadence and evil by Nazism. As early as 1977, Sam Peckinpah could make a movie called "Cross of Iron," in which the heroes were German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front, and a big American star, James Coburn,...

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