Cross of Iron
New York: Avco Embassy Pictures, 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1977 film, showing director Sam Peckinpah looking through the camera. Printed provenance labels 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.
[Book #170445]
Price: $125.00
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