Movie Information
Overall Rank: 881
Average Rating: 3.1/4
# of Ratings: 43
Theatrical Release Date: 05/11/1977
Language: English
Genre: Drama, War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna
Plot: During WWII, battle-hardened Rolf Steiner leads many successful missions but when a new Prussian commander is assigned, the man wants only one thing - an Iron Cross to maintain his families honor. The two men cannot coexist as honor and arrogance collide. -- Chris Kavan
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 06/27/2018
Typically nihilistic action drama helmed by Sam Peckinpah. The mostly male cast isn't bad at the 'tough guy' personas they have to adopt. But the film is so relentlessly bleak but rather boring it becomes tedious.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
What will we do when we have lost the war?
gideon43 - wrote on 06/03/2010
Director Sam Peckinpah was undoubtedly a flawed genius, his life blighted by serious alcohol and drug abuse, he nevertheless made a number of classic movies.
His Revisionist approach to the Western genre, the Wild Bunch had led him to true iconic status and Cross Of Iron (apologies to any Convoy fans) was his last great film.
Surviving an almost compulsory troubled production, Cross of Iron has many of Peckinpahs trademark touches, his slow motion action scenes and violent montages a standout.
James Coburn (in possibly his finest ever performance) commands respect and the absurdity and futility of war has never been bettered on screen.
Dynamic, angry and sometimes even surreal, Cross Of Iron quite comfortably holds its own on any list of greatest ever War films.
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