Cross of Iron

Sam Peckinpah (director)
Willi Heinrich (novel)
Julius Epstein, James Hamilton, Walter Kelley (screenwriters)
James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger (starring)

New York: Avco Embassy Pictures, 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film, showing director Sam Peckinpah in a tub with actors Vadim Glowna and Ivica Pajer. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.

Based on Willi Heinrich's 1955 novel "The Willing Flesh," focusing on the class conflict which arises between a selfish, aristocratic Prussian officer and the war-hardened German troops on the Russian front in 1943. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julius J. Epstein was best known for co-writing Michael Curtiz's classic 1942 film "Casablanca."

Set in Russia, shot on location in Croatia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, and Italy.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, lightly toned on the verso.


[Book #149589]