Like 'Hell's Angels' three decades earlier, this is a feat of logistics (shot in Ireland) rather than of filmmaking. Ursula Andress says it all when she reacts to drinking champagne, "Horrible! But quite stimulating!!"
George Peppard was presently flying high playing good-looking jerks when he made this, and the fact that he is so obviously far more preoccupied with winning a stupid medal ("a piece of scrap. It's worth exactly five marks...") than bedding Ms Andress points to why the film is such a chore to sit through. ('The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp', which also lingers over The Great War and is even longer, is far richer and more thought-provoking.)
It's strange to see Anton Diffring in a First World War uniform for once.
George Peppard was presently flying high playing good-looking jerks when he made this, and the fact that he is so obviously far more preoccupied with winning a stupid medal ("a piece of scrap. It's worth exactly five marks...") than bedding Ms Andress points to why the film is such a chore to sit through. ('The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp', which also lingers over The Great War and is even longer, is far richer and more thought-provoking.)
It's strange to see Anton Diffring in a First World War uniform for once.