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...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 futility up and down the ranks (James Mason). There is also a side excursion...
...good slow-motion shot of a soldier getting killed deserves another, and another, and another. By the time Coburn and his men run across a unit of female Russian sentries - an encounter dripping with prurience, multiple killings and a castration - Peckinpah is clearly indulging himself. Like Coburn's sergeant, who turns down a chance to be invalided out of service in order to return to the front lines. Peckinpah is undone by his attraction to the carnage he professes to loathe...
...title "Hark, Hark, a Quark -Maybe" [May 2] was the mark of an aardvark who crawled in from a stark Ozark park and was really in the dark. As Professor Gell-Mann could tell you. Quark rhymes with torque, pork, stork, cork, fork and Sergeant O'Rourke of New York, New York...
When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
...German military was still blushing last week as Schmidt, found guilty of embezzlement by a civilian state court in Bonn, began serving a 3½-year term. "You can be sure we've tightened up the system," snapped a Bundeswehr official. Still, few could help admiring the sergeant's ingenuity. Said a Defense Ministry aide: "It was a masterful trick." As for getting the money back, the government can forget it. When he was arrested, Sigi was flat broke...