I own all 3 on DVD 'nuff said about the quality of these movies.

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The reason why Cross of Iron ending was so bad was because the film ran out of money and the studio ordered them to shut down production that day! Peckinpah and Coburn rewrote the ending and shot it in a single day just in order to finish the film.

One point about the comment on realisim in Enemy at the Gates. At the end where the german sniper steps out, no mater how sure he was that he had killed the other sniper, would he really have stepped out into the open in broad daylight?? the true story of that russian sniper and how he killed the german is very different, but yes it was a very good film.

I have never been to war, but I would imagine that any soldier that would stand up in the middle of the open they way Ed Harris did wouldn't be long for this earth. Both German and Russian snipers were instructed to work as a team usually a sniper/spotter. Zeitsev lead a small group of snipers, which covered an area.

If you watch the movie, you see Konig or Thorwald (whatever his real name was) shoots Zeitsev's spotter from underneath a piece of sheet scrap metal. In actuality (according to Russian legend), thats where Zeitsev killed Konig, he found him hiding under the metal.