war film logic dictate that both american and german and the occupied french will all understand each other while speak fluent americanese . with this kind of co operation and why be there ever a war in the first place . possibly to inspire no budget tank opera like battle of the last panzer . it the tale of a doomed panzer squad lead by the clearly insane lieutenant hunter ( play by italian actor stan cooper and real name stelvio rosi ) . his men know the war be over and be on the brink of mutiny and but hunter and who spend most of the film with his shirt off and practice his strange full facial style of overact and be determine to see his mission through to the last man stand . they bulldoze their way into a tiny french village and capture the sycophantic mayor and his less than impressed wife jeanette and who despise weakness and see something sexy in hunter bullish macho destructive determination . play by german actress erna schürer who spend most of the seventy in more sleazy italian fare such a strip nude for your killer and deported woman of the s special section and jeanette willingly volunteer to become their tour guide and supposedly to save her husband and but after a while trap in a tank full of sweat and leer german her motif be quite clear and show off her flesh and play the affection of one soldier against the other . at one point and hunter peer up her skirt and say pull up into the underbrush and park . jawohl and mein herr . unlike spaghetti western and the italian war cycle be far short and much less prolific and and produce no stand alone genre classic and least of all this one . but battle of the last panzer from 1969 have the look and feel and musical score of a spaghetti western from the same era transpose confederate versus yankee on top of the ww2 player and substitute a war wagon for the panzer tank and and gatling for submachine gun and and you have a sergio leone movie . a rough a gut leone at a third of the running time and one fiftieth of the cost and with a script rewrite buy a team of monkey on typewriter and but a leone film nonetheless . and with a cool red tint spaghetti western style shootout at the end and it worth sit through this interesting yet deeply flawed italian spanish poverty row production . so gather the troop and fire up the tiger for another excursion into enemy territory courtesy of the losing side represent the italian war epic battle of the last panzer .