rights to Hunter Davies' authorized biography of The Beatles. February 21 – McGraw-Hill, Inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S.February 18 – David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd, replacing founder Syd Barrett, who has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.February 16 – The Beatles, Mike Love, Mia Farrow, Donovan and others travel to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh.Hendrix is also given the key to the city. February 12 – Jimi Hendrix is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington.February 4 – The Bee Gees make their American television debut on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.February 1 – Universal Studios offers The Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made.January 20 – The Who and the Small Faces start with a tour of Australia and New Zealand.January 13 – Johnny Cash records At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison, California.January 4 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding.List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1968. JSTOR ( April 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. A classic and unforgivably forgotten film set during the worst conflict in history. Then seeing a cross cut with a Soviet and German dying at the same time. The editing during the battle scenes are absolutely superb as we see Soviet soldiers in slo mo, Germans in real time, cutting back to Soviets in real time then Germans in slo mo. CROSS OF IRON has a much better script.Maybe the battle scenes of SPR are slightly more gory but at best they`re only as good as the ones in this film. I sometimes watch SAVING PRIVATE RYAN but I only watch the first half hour and last half hour `cos the middle of SPR is totally tedious. I also find the script perfectly paced, CROSS OF IRON lasts nearly two and a half hours but no matter how many times I watch it I never find it dragging in any way. Guess if you travelled a thousand years` in the future we`d still be hearing that. I was not responsible " Something that has been said a lot of times during the last century, and the century before that, and the one before that. But notice the couple of ironic touches in the film where people say the excuse of " I obey orders. That`s one of many good aspects of the script, it`s so thoughtful and with one exception it doesn`t show any of the Germans as out and out idealogue fascists. He dislikes the Nazis almost as much as Steiner does. It`d be all too easy to have Schell as a goosestepping Nazi, but Schell`s character is a Prussian aristocrat opposed to fascist egalitarianism. James Mason is also good, though you have admit has Mason ever been bad ? but the best performance award goes to Maximillian Schell as the villain of the piece. For the first time in his career he shows he has presence and probably gives his best performance in any film. James Coburn, star of many a forgettable lightweight caper movie is perfect as the cynical Sgt Steiner. This is an intelligent anti war classic and I never get bored with it. I first saw CROSS OF IRON in 1983 and have seen it umpteen times since then. Off the top of my head I can think of only 3 American / European movies to be set on the Eastern front: ENEMY AT THE GATES, STALINGRAD and CROSS OF IRON. Alas however western film makers seem reluctant to acknowledge this. Something that seems very unlikely to be exceeded. IF you look upon the war between Hitler and Stalin as being separate from all the other campaigns of conflict in the second world war then the campaign in Eastern Europe is the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind. From June 1941 to the final battle of Berlin in April 1945 the conflict between the Nazis and red army cost the lives of 35 million people. When Nazi Germany invaded The Soviet Union in 1941 it led to the worst carnage in human history.
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