Cross of Iron
Tony Williamson (television writer)
...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...
Cross of Iron
...James Mason, Maximilian Schell, and David Warner . Set in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II, Cross of Iron is the story of the class conflict between a newly-arrived,...
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Taman Peninsula
...was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and taken back by the Red Army in 1943. The story of the motion picture Cross of Iron revolves around conflicts that arise within the leadership of...
Willi Heinrich
...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...
The Willing Flesh
...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.
Breakthrough (film)
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...
Mill Valley screenwriter James Hamilton dies
...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...
James Hamilton, Mill Valley screenwriter, dies
...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...
Inglourious Basterds (18)
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,...
Lone voice
...that is going to continue coming up. Take Sam Peckinpah's 1977 epic on the horrors of the Eastern Front, Cross of Iron. A classic war movie it is. A classic example of coherent accents...
Sam Peckinpah: A taste for blood
...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...
How Sam Peckinpah shocked Hollywood with Alfredo Garcia
...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...
