This is another cliched war picture in which the Germans are all sadistic psychopaths and the Americans are all noble and brave. If nothing else, this film proves that Charleton Heston --- Ben Hur with a baton --- was as rotten an actor in 1968 as he is now. The story is fanciful. The characters are about as deep as the phony snow they stumble around in. Women were non existant in the symphony orchestras of the era yet the orchestra in this story has several. Is it likely that a USO troupe entertaining American soldiers in 1944 Belgium would play Beethoven and other German composers. By the standards of 1968 it would rate a c-. Today it simply isn't a contender, even on the late show. Now maybe if they had used John Wayne rather than Heston...
Review of Counterpoint
