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Cross Of Iron is one war film that will win order viewings to truly enjoy all the material. With that said, I won’t interpret on the film’s strong points since they’ve already been mentioned by many before. And this DVD release from Hen’s Tooth is not the one to idea this film from. It is a shortened edited version and the transfer is Full-Frame, it doesn’t even appear to be Pan & Scan…simply a stupid shot down the middle of the film. The quality of this Hen’s Tooth release is absolutely corrupt for the DVD format. It appears as though it’s almost a VHS transfer, or a heavily dilapidated film transfer at best. There are numerous scratches and dust artifacts, and the color saturation is very customary in many scenes. The sound on the DVD is equally bad during the entire movie, it’s very hard to understand remarkable of the dialogue at times.
I’ve purchased bargain DVD’s for $3 before that are 100% better in quality than this! Unprejudiced by the sheer fact that the film is edited would have Peckinpah rolling in his grave. Hen’s Tooth knows and have admitted that the transfer is wicked, yet they composed charge $30 retail nearly 4 years after their DVD release?!?? There is no draw that this disc is worth that grand money. I would gladly pay the designate if it was a Criterion edition, but not this abominable edition.
If you have the technical capability I recommend ordering either the UK DVD or Japanese DVD of Disagreeable Of Iron. It won’t cost you distinguished more (perhaps less) than this unworthy Location 1 DVD release. The imports both point to the film in it’s unique anamorphic widescreen format, with vastly genuine report and sound. If you don’t have the technical capability, then hold a VHS edition of Harmful Of Iron.
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5 stars for the film itself, 0 stars for the Hen’s Tooth DVD…hence my 4 star rating.
Cross Of Iron is a masterpiece, one of the greatest anti-war, anti-authoritarian movies. It is one of director Sam Peckinpah’s two finest works — the other being The Wild Bunch. It deserves to be ranked in the same vast war movie company as Apocalypse Now, Das Boot, Beefy Metal Jacket, Paths Of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, Seven Samurai, and Zulu. Its setting on the World War Two Eastern Front, its gruesomeness, and its risk-taking viewpoint on monstrous combat from the German side, have tended to count against graceful assessment of its mighty artistic achievements. Viewers wary of the morality of its German viewpoint and its explicitness might net that it is fundamentally about humanity in general as a victim of war. The film reflects on the humanity which may be found on all sides of conflict–including Russian humanity portrayed variously as relentless, innocent, doughty, and feminine.
Cross Of Iron opens with an intense, chilling montage of nursery rhyme, propaganda, combat newsreel and atrocity. By the slay of the main title the montage subtly introduces the central characters, a German reconnaissance unit patrolling on the 1943 Russian front.
This 1977 film plot rarely matched standards of cinematic mayhem. Base Of Iron explosions don’t glance merely like dazzling fireballs — they blast fragments, rocks and debris, leaving no doubt as to why blood gouts from stumps of limbs and shrapnel-shredded entrails… Amid the screams of wounded and dying, as dust subsides from a mortar barrage, an artillery section shorn of its crew by a come hit swings across a pocked battlefield, its traversing wheel spinning under its bear momentum. The carnage occurs in the choreographed dead motion which Peckinpah made his signature.
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James Coburn turns in one of his finest roles as Rolf Steiner, a highly decorated NCO who leads a German reconnaissance squad. Steiner fights less for his country than for his comrades. He has indecent opinions of class and despicable distinctions. He is contemptuous both of Nazism and the aristocratic Prussian arrogance of his fresh worthy officer, Captain Stransky, played with mountainous style by Maximilian Schell. But there are hints of a shaded side. Although Steiner is affirm and philosophical he has no acknowledge when his worship interest during an enforced demolish from battle, nurse Eva (Senta Berger), bitterly accuses him of being stunned of what he would be without the war.
Among the many splendid supporting performances, James Mason plays the war-weary Colonel Brandt. He sees the immorality and futility of German war aims, but his sense of honour and duty about the prevailing struggle makes ceasing to fight unthinkable. David Warner plays Brandt’s out-of-place and out-of-time adjutant, Captain Kiesel, who represents to his colonel the hope that a more enlightened postwar Germany might arise from the ashes of inevitable defeat.
War movie buffs irritated by the technical inaccuracies favorite in many examples of the genre will win some satisfaction in attention to authenticity of weaponry. A range of kindly WWII German and Russian microscopic arms appears. The T 34/85 tanks are staunch, although the very picky might argue that this is at least six months premature, and that for the summer of ‘43 they should be T 34/76. Tactics at times deviate from the textbooks, but this is a drama, not a combat manual.
Cross Of Iron is a five-star movie. The Hen’s Tooth Video release is a two-star DVD, with sub-standard characterize and sound. But it is worth owning while this grand film of a tall American director lacks the high quality collectors’ edition Zone 1 DVD release it deserves.
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