John Toll's photography naturally won an Oscar for rendering the scenic backdrop for this long, leisurely film of a short book which follows the same narrative arc as 'Giant' and 'Ice Palace'.
It does for The Great War what 'Shenandoah' did for the Civil War with Anthony Hopkins playing the stern pacifist patriarch that James Stewart had played in the earlier film.
It does for The Great War what 'Shenandoah' did for the Civil War with Anthony Hopkins playing the stern pacifist patriarch that James Stewart had played in the earlier film.