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01/03/1979 Drama, History, War 1h 33m
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Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!

Overview

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

  1. Andrew V. McLaglen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Richard Burton

    Sergeant Steiner

  2. Rod Steiger

    General Webster

  3. Robert Mitchum

    Colonel Rogers

  4. Véronique Vendell

    Yvette

  5. Werner Pochath

    Keppel

  6. Klaus Löwitsch

    Krüger

  7. Michael Parks

    Sergeant Anderson

  8. Helmut Griem

    Major Stransky

  9. Curd Jürgens

    General Hofmann

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-11-03
On paper, this ought to have been a belter. Andrew V. McLaglen being no stranger to grand scale cinema and a cast of Hollywood A-listers to deliver a story of wartime betrayal and courage. So what happened? Richard Burton dons a rather erratic German accent as the conspiring and rather hot-tempered sergeant "Steiner" who finds himself under the command of his own personal nemesis "Von Stransky" (Helmut Griem). Fortunately, for him, at the behest of his scheming general "Hofmann" (Curd Jürgens) he is despatched to try and make some sort of truce with the approaching allies at the height of the...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
German

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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