Heroes of War Collection: Volume 3

Triple bill of WWII movies. In 'Eagles Over London' (1969), a group of German agents use the chaos of the Dunkirk evacuation as a cover to take on the identities of English soldiers in order to gain access to England and take out radar installations along the coast. In order to infiltrate the British army, they kill a squad of English troops and take their ID tags. Army officer Captain Paul Stevens (Frederick Stafford) finds the dead men and realises that their IDs are missing. On his return to England he heads efforts to track down the saboteurs before they can inflict any further damage. 'Cross of Iron' (1977), based on the novel 'The Willing Flesh' by Willi Heinrich, follows the story of a doomed German platoon facing annihilation at the hands of the Russians in 1943. Non-Nazi German soldier Steiner (James Coburn) resents the arrival of arrogant Prussian Stransky (Maximillian Schell) as his new commanding officer. Stransky is desperate to win an Iron Cross - a medal Steiner has already earned, but considers worthless - and so promotes the highly-recommended Steiner to sergeant. During a siege, Stransky hides in his bunker, terrified of battle, only to later file a report claiming that he himself led a victorious counter-attack. However, when Steiner disputes this Stransky takes measures to remove him. In 'The Inglorious Bastards' (1978), a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they are being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group decides their best bet is to head to neutral Switzerland, where they can avoid both the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they think will be freedom, they end up volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Wolf C. Hartwig
Writer: Tito Carpi
Writer: Vincenzo Flamini
Writer: Jose Martinez Molla
Writer: Gilles Dumoulin
Writer: Enzo G. Castellari
Writer: Julius Epstein
Writer: Sandro Continenza
Writer: Sergio Grieco
Writer: Romano Migliorini
Writer: Laura Toscano
Writer: Franco Marotta
Music: Francesco de Masi
Music: Ernest Gold
Cinematographer: Alejandro Ulloa
Cinematographer: John Coquillon
Cinematographer: Giovanni Bergamini
Actor: Frederick Stafford
Actor: Van Johnson
Actor: Francisco Rabal
Actor: Ida Galli
Actor: Luigi Pistilli
Actor: Renzo Palmer
Actor: Luis Davila
Actor: Christian Hay
Actor: Jacques Berthier
Actor: Teresa Gimpera
Actor: George Rigaud
Actor: Eduardo Fajardo
Actor: James Coburn
Actor: Maximilian Schell
Actor: James Mason
Actor: David Warner
Actor: Klaus Lowitsch
Actor: Senta Berger
Actor: Burkhardt Driest
Actor: Roger Fritz
Actor: Vadim Glowna
Actor: Dieter Schidor
Actor: Fred Stillkrauth
Actor: Véronique Vendell
Actor: Bo Svenson
Actor: Peter Hooten
Actor: Fred Williamson
Actor: Michael Pergolani
Actor: Jackie Basehart