The part is as much a stereotype as the others but Shaw gives it a little extra. On the Nazi side there is Robert Shaw - tall, blond and very Aryan as the undefeatable officer who will lead the tank attack. Robert Ryan (he's a general) alternately frowns and smiles at both of them.Īlong with this are the usual little side dramas - Telly Savalas wonderfully cavorting as a sergeant who runs a black market on the side a gung-ho sergeant (George Montgomery) helping a green kid lieutenant (James MacArthur). He's an ex-police inspector who's been sniffing around but the regular Army boys just sniff at his ideas.ĬHIEF AMONG these is Dana Andrews as a stuffy officer. In this work of pure fiction Fonda is an intelligence officer who figures the Nazi forces are about to mount an offensive. It is, however, a standard Henry Fonda movie in which he drawls and looks quizzical and outwits everyone and eventually turns back a major German offensive thus hastening the end of World War II. This isn't the Battle of the Bulge or any other recognizable battle. Unfortunately, the camera work and thrilling staging of the battles are betrayed by a screenplay that looks as though it were assembled from bits and pieces of old war movies and maybe a western or two. With "Battle of the Bulge" Cinerama moves out onto the battlefield and the super-wide screen process makes for some exciting moments.
Tony Mastroianni Review Collection "Battle of the Bulge" Is Exciting, but Has a Bulge of Bad Facts Cleveland Press March 25 1966
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