BATTLE OF THE BULGE is one of the epic WW2 films of the 1960s, but given that all of the others are so good - from THE GUNS OF NAVARONE to THE LONGEST DAY - this one pales in comparison somewhat. It's not that this film is particularly poor, it's just that it could be better. It's overlong, for a start, and surprisingly simplistic given the nature of the actual battle itself. Robert Shaw plays a nasty Nazi in charge of a tank division attacking an assembled group of heroes, inevitably played by famous American old-timers: Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews et al. The scale is impressive throughout, although some of the back projection hasn't aged very well, but somehow this simply isn't as immersive as the true classics from the era.
Review of Battle of the Bulge
