![]() Some of the destruction seems shockingly real while the occasional shots of model tanks and trains are so jarring that they're unintentionally funny. The various battle scenes vary widely in quality. The script by John Melson and producers Phillip Yordan and Milton Sperling neatly juggles those plot elements,bringing them all together only at a wonderfully preposterous conclusion. Weaver (James MacArthur)from getting himself killed,and Guffy(Telly Savalas)uses his Sherman tank to distribute black market wine,eggs,and nylons. Sargent Duquesne(George Montgomery)keeps wet-behind-the-ears Lt. Meanwhile,right at the point of the German attack,Major Wolenski's(Charles Bronson)men are hunkered in a bunker and trying to stay warm. His superiors,General Gray (Robert Ryan),and Colonel Pritchard(Dana Andrews) are skeptical. Kiley also spots some Tiger tanks and thinks that he has discovered the first evidence of the counteroffensive. On a reconaissance flight,he spots Colonel Hessler(Robert Shaw)in the back of a big black convertible. But Colonel Kiley(Henry Fonda)who's a cop in civilian life,has a hunch that the enemy is up to something. ![]() ![]() They're on cruise control waiting for orders to return home. As the synopsis of the story goes it is December,1944 and American troops and officers advancing toward Germany think that the war is over. Veteran director Ken Annakin knows how to keep this sort of sprawling material in line,and even if the two leads are doing a bit of slumming,they're as good as they used to be. The combination is somehow much more entertaining that it ought to be. "THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE"-was without a doubt an archetypal studio war movie,since this one is really quite faithful to the broad outlines and details of a real campaign,and then fills out the running time with ridiciously unrealistic Hollywood heroics.
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