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Review

Notable for being the great action director Peckinpah's first war film, this nonetheless represents the director's decline and is only intermittently interesting. It tells the story of a group of German soldiers on the Russian front in 1943 -- a compelling idea which isn't given its full due. There is, however, a brilliantly staged battle scene near the end of the film which may, or may not, make it worth sitting through.