Plot hole: "The regiment headquarters calling for Corporal Steiner. Come in Steiner." The film starts with this repeating radio message. It's even heard by Steiner and his men who are on their hush-hush job behind the enemy lines: a reconnaissance mission. Calling Steiner just makes no sense, especially with the name.
Cross of Iron (1977)
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: James Mason, James Coburn, David Warner, Maximilian Schell
Factual error: When Captain Stransky urinates at the side of the road after ordering his motorcycle driver to pull up, he zips up his trousers as he returns to the motorcycle. Wehrmacht uniforms had buttons and not zippers.
Factual error: In the bombing scene after Steiner tells the captain that he doesn't believe the captain deserves the Iron Cross, the planes are American Corsairs, despite being set on the eastern front when Soviets and Germans were fighting. (01:03:49)
Captain Stransky: A world without women. It's an old theory of mine. Men can get along without women easily. Easily. I tell you a man's true destiny is not just breeding children, all this childbirth and chocolate, but to be free. To rule and to fight. In other words: to lead a man's existence. Women are no more than a nuisance. Sometimes necessary.
Kern: Do you believe in God, Sergeant?
Sargeant Steiner: I believe God is a sadist, but probably doesn't even know it.
Colonel Brandt: What will we do when we have lost the war?
Captain Kiesel: Prepare for the next one.
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