I can say that I have seen most of them, but I can only judge them on who I am as well as anyone else. I own at least 80% of US and UK made WWII films I have more then a few 400 disk Changers to house some of them. Put your mind on hold and you'll enjoy it too. Still, in spite of the flaws, I loved this film enough to buy it for myself. Anyone that knows anything of this battle knows that the second the skies cleared the 8th Air Force pounded the Germans to dust. The units involved were purly fictious and there are several scenes of bright sunshine over the battlefield. The tanks used are all American mounts from the 50's and 60's even the german ones. Everything else was either fictious or downright wrong.
The only thing they got correct was the location, the dates and the fact that there were Americans and Germans involved. You come to feel for Fonda and beleagured Americans, but part of you might also start humming "Der Panser" song in your sleep.Īs for historical accuracy, Pheh, what didn't they get wrong. Not as a Nazi, but as a man obsessed with staying in uniform as long as possible. He is the true face of battle, a true "war lover". However Robert Shaw as Colonel Hessler steals the show. Fonda, Bronson and the rest of this ensemble cast give strong performances in depicting the allied side of the Battle of the Bulge. This above average war flick it a rousing flag waver and pot poiler that has only tinges of the cynicism that come to dominate war films in the late 60's, '70 and 80's.
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