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Cross of Iron

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Cin�philia

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Date Posted: 15:37:03 12/01/01 Sat

While looking for info about euro-trash star Tomas Milian, I found this review of Cross of Iron:

http://www.insane.nu/kult/crosiron.htm

There's a screen capture with DW on the page.

Milian is a highly entertaining and colorful character actor. Isn't it funny how people like Lee J. Cobb and Arthur Kennedy became big stars in Italy? In the Seventies, most of the budget of an Italian cheapie went to pay for the American actor's salary... Italian actors must not have been very pleased about that!

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[> Subject: Verrrrrry interesting ...

Author:
Suky
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Date Posted: 09:38:47 12/03/01 Mon

Thanks for helping me decide which DW film to watch next!

" ... the film is almost automatically doomed to be compared with Saving Private Ryan, it holds up surprisingly well."

Considering it was made two decades earlier it seems unfair to compare the two, doesn't it? But that it holds up says a *lot* for "Cross." If it had been made by the almighty Steven Spielberg, maybe it would have been a blockbuster too. (And everyone thought Private Ryan was a *new* concept.)

" ... especially since it is seen through the German's perspective. Peckinpah wisely decided to hire actual German actors for most of the supporting roles such as Klaus L�witsch (Treasure Island in Outer Space) and Vadim Glowna (The Martian Chronicles). Of course there's a couple British actors thrown in for good measure, with James Mason (Jesus of Nazareth, Kidnap Syndicate) and David Warner (The Blue Tornado, Titanic) as a pair of officers who rarely get their hands dirty."

Interesting how James Mason appeared in a previous WWII film from the German perspective which received a lot of flack at the time: The Desert Fox. Only this time he didn't play a German.

[> [> Subject: Blue Tornado

Author:
Guess who (again)
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Date Posted: 18:42:34 12/12/01 Wed

BTW, did anyone else find it interesting that the two films for which DW is known that are named in the article are Titanic and ... Blue Tornado? (???) Coincidentally, I just watched that film for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Anybody else seen it? It was very predictable, but DW was in it a *lot* and had a very sypathetic character. As Dirk Benedict's air-force commander, he's stern but kindly--the feature-length version of his Wing Commander role.

OK, I *do* have a life, and I'm going to get back to it now; I mean it this time! ;-)

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Re: Blue Tornado

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Cinephilia
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Date Posted: 14:57:38 12/13/01 Thu

BT was the first real dog, featuring DW, that I ever saw. It was the French-dubbed version, which made things even worse. I couldn't believe the voice they gave him... It's usually the one that they use to dub older Afro-American actors!!

I could hardly believe my ears when I heard the hero tell Patsy Kensit's character: "I can't believe that a beautiful woman like you can be so smart." Sadly, it was the best line in the whole script.

Bland, bland cheese without any actual psychotronic value.