this be a small gem and apparently totally forgotten and ignore by the multitude of clueless movie fan and critic and who be very much focus on shower praise only on crap that they dig out from the past . i be surprise to find myself enjoy an italian movie . the humour be slightly odd and at time very funny . there be those who consider steiger not to be at his best here and but i guess for some people only frantic over act and complete with manic hand waving and mugging and count a good acting . ( show mee the moneeeyyyy . ) . steiger be subtle yet everything he do that be in any way connect to escape his dumb captor be hilarious represent the way he touch the soldier rifle and the manner in which he dash away with the cow bell attach to his neck . priceless . tgatg be strange little film and almost invent a new sub genre represent the war road movie . the trio of main character move in war torn territory that come off almost a another planet and where food be about as scarce a brain cell be in sean penn bloat head . the struggle for the egg be a good example . the guy play the italian soldier isn not that great and but virna lisi be quite sexy . the fairly interesting morricone score help and too .