I generally hate war movies, but this one has a pretty interesting lineup, including Barnaby Jones, that spasmo who used to host Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and Lee Marvin/James Coburn (they're the same guy). The main plot is about an incompetent, brown-nosing pussy who hangs a bunch of his men out to die and doesn't live to regret it, but this flick is primarily worth watching for all the impressive but grounded badassery along the way, my favorite being the part where some pinned-down Americans shove a captive Nazi officer through a doorway so that he gets mown down by his own krauts. Plenty of other luckless fucks get smeared too, including several via the classic method of dropping a grenade into the enclosed space where they're holed up. This is what war movies should be like: light on the whining and patriotic horseshit, and heavy on the transforming of people into chunky soup. Also, the doorknob coming off in the main guy's hand while a tank is bearing down on him is a comedy classic. And you can't beat the part where one of the soldiers finally gets fed up, blows away their bitch-ass C.O. in front of everybody, and totally gets away with it. Talk about living the dream. The very end is way too not cynical enough, but other than that this is a totally kickass flick and one more reminder that war really is hell... except when it's awesome.

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