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Box office. $1,509,000 [1] Cross of Iron (German: Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, lit. "Steiner – The Iron Cross") is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. Set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the German Kuban ...
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May 20, 1977 · Cross of Iron: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner. German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
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- Drama, War
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1977-05-20
May 6, 2023. Rated: 5/5 • Jul 14, 2022. During World War II, Cpl. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is a well-respected member of the German military and a recipient of the Iron Cross, Germany's ...
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- Sam Peckinpah
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- James Coburn
The ambitious and arrogant Captain Stransky, an aristocrat who had himself transferred from Biarritz to the Eastern Front because "capable men are needed here", presents himself to regimental commander Brandt. At the same time, Sergeant Steiner, an unconventional man who is popular with his men, returns from a patrol with his shock troop.
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Film Review. P ossibly the most consistently underrated war film ever made, Cross of Iron is cinema's most explicit depiction of the naked brutality of warfare and its corrosive effect on the souls of the men who find themselves caught up in the carnage of battlefield conflict. Taking as his inspiration Willi Heinrich's 1955 novel Das Geduldige ...
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Novel. James Hamilton. Screenplay. Walter Kelley. Screenplay. Julius J. Epstein. Screenplay. It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner.
