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Cross of Iron is Sam Peckinpah's venture into one of the movies' thriving subindustries: the big-budget, international-cast package tour of World War II. The itinerary is a bit unusual-the Eastern Front in 1943, where the German defenses are crumbling before a Russian onslaught. But within the German bunkers Peckinpah focuses on some old familiar attractions: the maverick sergeant who hates officers and war but is still a helluva soldier (James Coburn), the gutless captain who schemes to ride to glory on the bravery of others (Maximilian Schell), the worldly colonel who copes philosophically with...
...have been over this ground many times before. Peckinpah, haranguing us from the front of the bus about the horrors of war, lends a grisly authenticity to some of the scenes, but he cannot make it all fresh enough to justify the long, grueling trip. To the battleweary German soldiers, the enemy is not so much Russia as the militaristic strain in their own national character, symbolized by Schell's aristocratic captain who dares not face his family until he has won the Iron Cross. The script labors the point with a barrage of melodrama and moralizing. "What will...
...Radio Freak C.W. McCall (writer of the 1976 bestselling single Convoy) and Actor Kris Kristofferson share the same handle: "Rubber Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even...
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...staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times...